Alcohol and the Body
Alcohol mainly affects this body system which includes the brain and spinal cord
What is the Central Nervous System?
Feelings and behaviors more exaggerated, judgment, sense of risk, concentration, and self-control decreases are caused by one of the two: mild intoxication or increased intoxication?
What is increased intoxication?
This is a deadly disease that replaces healthy liver tissue with useless scar tissue
What is cirrhosis?
These are the mental or psychological processes that restrain your actions, emotions, and thoughts.
What are inhibitions?
This is a disease in which a person is physically and psychologically dependent on alcohol.
What is alcoholism?
Alcohol is this type of drug as it slows down body systems.
What is a depressant?
This type of intoxication can cause you to be less responsive, thinking clearly is impossible, impaired walking and driving.
What is increased intoxication?
This organ is responsible for removing toxins, like blood and alcohol, from the blood.
What is the liver?
This is the amount of time from the instant your brain detects an external stimulus until the moment you respond.
What is reaction time?
This is the emotional or mental need for a drug.
What is psychological dependence?
This is a term for the amount of alcohol in the bloodstream.
What is Blood Alcohol Concentration.
This is damage to physical health caused by drinking too much alcohol.
What is alcohol poisoning?
This is a condition in which person needs more of a drug to feel the original effects of the drug.
What is tolerance?
The purpose of these is to make drinking alcohol look attractive, fun, and normal.
What are advertisements?
This is a support group that helps family members and friends of alcoholics
What is Al-anon?
Women can get drunker faster than men because alcohol does this in women's bodies.
What is move through the bloodstream faster?
This is an uncomfortable physical effects caused by alcohol use.
What is a hangover?
This is the inability to drink in moderation or at appropriate times.
What is alcohol abuse?
Some teens use this reason as an excuse to drink.
What is _______?
This is the body’s chemical need for a drug
What is physical dependence?
The legal limit for BAC in the United States is this number.
What is .08?
This is the mental and physical changes produced by drinking alcohol.
This is a group of birth defects that affect unborn baby that has been exposed to alcohol.
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
This is a reason why a teen should refuse to drink alcohol.
What is _______?
This is a support group that helps young people cope with having a family member or friend who is an alcoholic.
What is Alateen?