Alcohol is a Drug
A chemical substance that is taken to cause changes in a person’s body or behavior
What is a drug?
The amount of alcohol in a person’s blood, expressed as a percentage
What is blood alcohol concentration (BAC)?
The state of losing control over the use of a drug; it is accompanied by a strong craving for the drug
What is addiction?
The skills needed to say no
What are refusal skills?
A drug that slows brain and body reactions
What is a depressant?
Taking an excessive amount of a drug that leads to a coma or death
What is an overdose?
A group of brith defects caused by the effects of alcohol on an unborn child
What is fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)?
Asking the questions What are my reasons? and Where will I encounter pressure to drink? can help you do this
What is prepare for pressure?
The process that creates alcohol in which microorganisms called yeast feed on sugars
The charge given to a driver caught driving with a BAC that exceeds .08% or to a driver under the age of 21 with any detectable BAC
The process of learning to cope with everyday living without alcohol
What is rehabilitation?
What is not drinking?
Divide by 2 to calculate alcohol content from this
What is proof?
One of the four factors affecting BAC
What is rate of consumption, gender, body size, or food in stomach?
You should never get into a car with anyone who has been doing this
What is drinking?
The attitudes of these three things strongly influence underage drinking
What are peers, family, and the media
Once a person stops drinking, BAC does this
What is begins to decrease?
Three things that long-term alcohol abuse may harm
What are the brain, liver, heart, or digestive system?
The best decision you can make regarding alcohol is this
What is to abstain from alcohol, or not drink at all?