Teen
21
The legal drinking age
Binge Drinking is defined as a male consuming how many alcoholic beverages in a two hour period?
0.08%
The act of using another substance along side of alcohol.
Polysubstance
How many alcohol related deaths for underage people take place per year? Your answer has to be within a margin of 100.
(This is a 4 digit number)
4,300
What are two major risks associated with underage drinking?
Risky sexual behavior, risk of sexual assaults, violence, STI's, drunk driving, alcoholism...
Binge drinking is defined as a female consuming how many alcoholic beverages in a two hour period?
Alcohol is a depressant or a stimulant?
Depressant- it slows down the central nervous system
Give one reason why engaging in polysubstance is not healthy.
It can intensify the use of the drug very quickly.
It can lead to unpredictable reactions to the substances.
This number of people die per year from alcohol poisoning. Answer must be within a margin of 100 (this is a four digit answer)
2,300
Underage drinking can impact the user's ability to _______, resulting in lower grades in school.
learn
What age group most commonly engages in Binge Drinking?
Young adults, ages 18-34.
What are some factors in how alcohol impacts people?
Height, weight, amount of food eaten, medications, overall health, amount of sleep
How many times can a person engage with Polysubstance use before it becomes dangerous or even deadly?
One
The number of people that die per DAY from alcohol related issues/events (Answer must be within a margin of 50; answer is a three digit number).
380
Underage drinking can lead to depression and severely increase the risk of _______ in teens.
Suicide
____% of alcohol consumed by minors is in the form of Binge Drinking. Answer must be within a 5% margin
90%
This common drink is said to help "sober" up a person very fast, but it, in fact, does not sober them up at all.
Coffee
Using even small amounts of drugs and alcohol together can lead to an _____ very quickly.
Overdose
Half of this genders teenage death from drowning are alcohol related
Male's
Alcohol will have a larger impact on a teen's motor control or memory?
Memory
Binge drinkers are ___ times as likely to use other substances along side of alcohol
Twice
This action that takes places after drinking has started and is very commonly associated with binge drinking, is a sign of alcohol poisoning and in sever cases, can lead to death.
Vomiting.
Name 3 risks of mixing alcohol with drugs
Stimulants: Mixing them will lessen the feelings, making it so the person is actually more impaired than they present; severe dehydration (alcohol will make this worse); blacking out; death.
Depressants: dizziness; memory loss; death.
Prescription: Slowed or arrested breathing; lowered pulse and blood pressure; loss of consciousness; coma; death.
This number of people die per year as a direct result of "excessive alcohol use" (answer must be within a margin of 100; answer is a six digit number)
140,000