10.1
WHat type of drug is alcohol?
Depressant
True or false? There is a relationship between alcohol use and the number of accidents and violence incidents in the United States.
True.
What is social drinking also called?
Moderate drinking
How does the government approach reducing alcohol abuse?
By setting the drinking age to 21.
What is a necessary step in defeating addiction that means complete withdrawal from a substance; may cause intense anxiety, tremors, and hallucinations?
Detoxification
What is the percentage of alcohol that is in a person's blood?
Blood alcohol Concentration (BAC)
What are the effects of alcohol poisoning?
Vomiting, mental confusion, hypothermia, seizures, and slow breathing
Do biological factors help with alcohol abuse?
Yes
What are some skills for managing the situations that lead them to want to drink?
Avoiding situations where alcohol is present. Responding in new ways to these situations learning new strategies for handling stress. Developing strategies for refusing alcohol.
What is consumption of large amounts of alcohol in a short time period
Binge Drinking
What is the psychological restraint that discourages people from engaging in dangerous behaviors?
Inhibition
What are some immediate effects of underage drinking?
Hangovers and illness may occur. THis interferes with school and social relationships. More absences, bad grades and bad focus occur. Impact on education plans. Withdrawal from sports and clubs.
Do children who see drinking in movies tend to see alcohol more positively?
Yes, they are also more likely to start drinking as adults.
What is not a strategy for treating alcoholism?
Enabling
What is the term for the uncomfortable physical symptoms caused by excessive alcohol consumption?
Hangover
Alcohol can negatively impact the ceberal ____ which controls thought processing and consciousness.
Cortex
What are some signs of alcohol poisoning?
Mental confusion, stupor, coma, or unconsciousness, Vomiting, seizures, slow or irregular breathing and hypothermia.
What do most college students believe there is too much of on campus?
Alcohol
If someone drinks while on medication what will the medication do?
Give them bad side effects in the hope that it will cause them to stop drinking.
What is encouraging an addict's destructive behaviors either intentionally or unintentionally?
Enabling
Once alcohol is consumed, it stays in the body until the liver can break , or ____ the alcohol.
metabolize
With violence
How did they try to compare rates of alcohol abuse?
With Identical Twins.
The AA philosophy is based on what two basic ideas?
People who abuse alcohol are alcoholics and will remain that way for life, even if they never drink again. Taking even a single drink after having quit for an extended time period can set off an alcoholic binge.
What is the consumption of enough alcohol taht a person experiences problems in his or her daily; often characterized by psychological but not physical dependence on alcohol?
Problem Drinking