Alcohol Use and Teens
What is a minor?
What is? A person under the age of adult rights and responsibilities.
What does intoxicated mean?
Physically and mentally impaired by the use of alcohol
A mental or physical need for a drug or other substance
What is addiction
The process of learning to live an alcohol-free life
What is recovery
Why do teens use Alcohol?
What is curiosity, popularity, to feel grown up and/or to feel relief from parents.
The ability of the body to respond quickly and appropriately to situations
What is reaction time
A disease in which a person has a physical and psychological need for alcohol
What is alcoholism
Another way of thinking or acting
Alternatives
What is a depressant?
What is a drug that slows down the body’s functions.
A dangerous condition that results when a person drinks excessive amounts of alcohol over a short time period
Alcohol Poisioning
Symptoms of Alcoholism
What is Craving, loss of control, tolerance, physical dependence, making excuses and/or irritably
A gathering in which family and friends get the problem drinker to agree to seek help
What is an intervention?
What does binge drinking mean?
What is having several drinks in a short period of time
The amount of alcohol in the blood
What is Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC)
Using alcohol in ways that are unhealthy, illegal, or both
What is alcohol abuse
Persons who create an atmosphere in which the alcoholic can comfortably continue his or her unacceptable behavior
What is Enablers
What does DWI stand for?
What is driving while intoxicated (DWI)
Heavy drinkers are particularly at risk of developing
What is cirrhosis
Stage 2 of Alcoholism
What is dependence
The S.T.O.P strategy
What is
Say no in a firm voice.
Tell why not.
Offer another idea.
Promptly leave.