How Does Alcohol Impact Your Body
One alcoholic drink equals 10 ounces of beer, malt liquor, wine, or distilled spirits. True or False?
What is false.
There is a relationship between alcohol use and the number of accidents and violence incidents in the United States. True or False?
What is True.
_____ describes a drinking pattern in which a female consumes no more than one drink per day on average and a male consumes no more than two drinks per day on average.
What is Moderate drinking.
Assume that you tell a friend who is offering you alcohol that you simply don't want to drink it. This is an example of _____ skills.
What is refusal.
A general term used to describe a drink that contains a certain amount of ethanol.
What is Alcohol.
Alcohol is a _____, or a type of drug that slows down the central nervous system.
What is depressant.
_____ is a medical emergency caused when a high blood alcohol concentration suppresses the central nervous system and can result in loss of consciousness, low blood pressure, low body temperature, and difficulty breathing.
What is Alcohol Poisoning.
People who are moderate drinkers continue to drink even when their use of alcohol causes serious problems with their physical, mental, and social health, and family or job responsibilities. True or False?
What is false.
One strategy the government uses to reduce the rate of alcoholism is to reduce the taxes for purchasing alcohol. True or False?
What is True.
The percentage of alcohol that is present in a person's blood.
What is Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC).
Alcohol can negatively impact the cerebral _____, which controls thought processing and consciousness.
What is cortex.
The build up of scar tissue in the liver is called ____.
What is Cirrhosis.
Which of the following is a sign of alcoholism?
Experiencing blackouts, developing a high tolerance for alcohol, and experiencing alcohol-related problems that interfere with physical, mental, and social health.
Which of the following is not a strategy for treating alcoholism?
What is enabling.
A disease in which a person is completely dependent on alcohol.
What is Alcoholism.
Once alcohol is consumed, is stays in the body until the liver can break down, or _____ the alcohol.
What is metabolize.
Which of the following describes a possible symptom of fetal alcohol syndrome?
Decreased muscle tone and poor coordination. Delayed development and problems with thinking, speech, movement, and social skills. Heart defects.
Most high school and college students believe that other students are comfortable with drinking alcohol, when in reality, many are uncomfortable with alcohol. True or False?
True
The process of completely withdrawing from alcohol is called _____.
What is detoxification.
A term for a group of serious physical and mental birth defects caused by a woman's consumption of alcohol while pregnant.
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS).
How can alcohol, a liquid, dehydrate the body?
Alcohol suppresses your body's antidiuretic hormone that sends fluid back into your body while simultaneously acting as a diuretic, causing water to be flushed out of your system much more rapidly than normal.
Why is alcohol use especially dangerous for adolescents?
Drinking is more harmful to teens than adults because their brains are still developing throughout adolescence and well into young adulthood. Drinking during this critical growth period can lead to lifelong damage in brain function, particularly as it relates to memory, motor skills (ability to move) and coordination.
How does the media influence children's views and attitudes toward alcohol?
Children are more likely to use alcohol because they see adults doing it so they think they can do it.
When helping a person with an alcohol addiction, why is trying to fix the problem for the alcoholic not recommended?
If you try to help the person with an alcohol addiction, you could get addicted as well.
Encouraging an addict's destructive behaviors, either intentionally or unintentionally.
What is Enabling.