effects on body
Pregnant women are advised not to drink: why?
Alcohol can harm an unborn baby in various ways
How many shots is considered a standard drink?
about one shot
Will the amount of alcohol in your bloodstream (after passing out) stay the same or continue to rise?
Continue to rise.
Alcohol abuse is greatest among which of these age groups? (intervals of ten)
18- to 29-year-olds.
Champagne makes you more drunk.
TRUE
__________ in the stomach will slow the absorption of alcohol into the bloodstream and delay impairment.
FOOD
Binge Drinking can be defined as ___ or more drinks in one 2 hour period for women and ____ or more drinks for men.
4,5
What has more alcohol inside it (proportionate glasses)? Beer, wine, or hard liquor?
They are all equal.
what are two things Alcohol-use disorder increases your risk for?
Alcohol-use disorder also increases your risk for type 2 diabetes, stroke, heart attack, falls, and accidental death. Alcohol-use disorder may also make depression worse and affect memory.
Energy drinks mask the effects of alcohol by giving you a sense of energy and the false sense that you are not that intoxicated.
TRUE
What is the relationship between alcohol and the liver?
the liver helps remove alcohol from the blood.
As a rule of thumb, the liver can process about how many standard drinks per hour?
1!
List three signs of alcohol poisoning:
- drinks excessively,
- does not respond to being talked to or shouted out; no physical movement
- irregular heartbeat, breathing pulse
- vomits when sleeping or passed out and does not wake up after
- bluish/purplish skin, skin becomes very flushed
What are the two main things that contribute to alcohol use and disorder?
A person who has a family history of alcohol-use disorder is at greater risk for abusing alcohol. But research shows that the genes are responsible for only half of the risk for alcohol-use disorder. Things in a person’s environment make up part of the remaining risk. So does the interaction of a person’s genes with their environment.
Taking a Cold shower, drinking coffee or going for a run will sober you up faster.
FALSE
What is the number one major effect alcohol has on your mental?
It is a major depressant
Alcohol is classified as a depressant because it slows, or depresses, basic functions such as speech, reactions, and movement. It also affects brain function and neural activity, impairing the ability to think clearly, altering perceptions of one's immediate surroundings, and distorting issues of judgment.
Identify why alcohol is considered a drug.
Alcohol is considered a drug because it causes change in a person's physical and emotional state.
How long after ingestion does ethanol alcohol reach its peak concentration (10 min intervals)
20-60 min
What are some symptoms of alcohol-use disorders?
White wine won't get me as drunk as red
FALSE
Identify two out of the three long-term effects of alcohol.
dead brain cells
stomach bleeding
irregular heart beat
identify the three major reasons intoxication may lead to death?
intoxication increases the risk of the death from motor vehicle crashes, alcohol overdose, and interactions of alcohol with other drugs.
Long-term effects on the stomach?
Ulcers in stomach lining, stomach cancer
What are 5 out of the 11 main characteristics of substance abuse?
Alcohol kills brain cells.
FALSE.
During the temperance movement, it was often said that alcohol could kill brain cells. Throughout the decades, this myth has persisted, but scientific research has shown that the moderate consumption of alcohol is associated with better cognitive skills and memory than abstaining from alcohol. In other words, moderate drinking actually improves thinking, reasoning and memory.