L. 1: Why is Alcohol Harmful
What are drugs that slow
down the body’s functions and reactions?
Depressents
means a person’s mental and physical abilities have been impaired by alcohol.
Intoxication
His is a disease characterized by scarring and eventual destruction of the liver
cirrhosis
This is a type of addiction in which
the body itself feels a direct need for a drug.
Physical dependence
is a return to the use of a drug after at-
tempting to stop.
relapse.
Cleaning something like house or wound.
What is the Blood alcohol content to make you stop driving.
0.08
This is a condition in which
fats build up in the liver and cannot be broken down.
Fatty Liver
Teens what age are 4 times more likely to to become addicted.
15 and younger
This is the physical process of freeing the body
of an addictive substance.
Detoxification.
What type of alcohol did we talk about
Ethanol Alcohol
How fast does alcohol reach the brain.
30 seconds after being swallowed
Is it ok for Pregnant woman to drink alcohol.
No, it can cause fetal alcohol syndrome.
How many stages of alcoholism are there
4 stages
How can you stop or not try alcohol.
Find non alcoholic friends, do other things.
Name one of the teen advocacy groups.
Students
Against Destructive Decisions (SADD), Teens Against Tobacco Use
(T.A.T.U.), and Youth for Environmental Sanity.
is a dangerous condition that results when
a person drinks excessive amounts of alcohol over a short time period.
Alcohol poisoning
Driving under influence
What does tolerence mean
is a process in which your body needs more
and more of a drug to get the same effect.
What does admission mean when starting down the road recovery.
It means to admit that you have an addiction.
Do most teens drink or not drink?
Not drink
What percent does the liver break down of alcohol.
95 percent of it
Name one thing alcohol destroys in your brain.
Brain cells and memory and problem solving.
What is the second stage of alcoholism.
short term memory loss and blackouts.
If you find yourself in a situation in which you feel pressured
to try alcohol, use refusal skills. Practice the____ strategy.
S.T.O.P.