Effects of Alcohol
Short Term Effects of Alcohol
Long Term Effects of Alcohol
Alcoholism
Random
100
You must be this age to purchase alcohol.
What is 21?
100
The ability of the body to respond quickly and appropriately refers to this. (vocab word)
What is reaction time?
100
The act of drinking a large quantity of alcohol in a short period of time.
What is binge drinking?
100
A disease where a person has a physical and mental need for alcohol.
What is alcoholism?
100
True or False. Women are advised not to drink alcohol when they are pregnant.
What is true?
200
Alcohol falls into this category of drugs.
What are depressants?
200
The measure of the amount of alcohol in a persons blood is this. (vocab word)
What is blood alcohol content?
200
A disease characterized by scarring and eventual destruction of the liver.
What is Cirrhosis?
200
When your body needs more and more of a drug in order to feel the same effect, this is happening.
What is the building of a tolerance?
200
True or false. A 1.5 oz shot, a 12 oz beer, and a 5 oz glass of wine are not equal in alcohol content.
What is false?
300
Name two reasons why alcohol is especially dangerous to teens.
What is getting in trouble with the law, interferes with brain function, interferes with long and short term growth.
300
Name three reasons why alcohol may affected some people differently than others?
What are gender, weight, food consumption, tolerance, how fast you drink?
300
This organ is primarily responsible for chemically breaking down alcohol that is in the body.
What is the liver?
300
The difference between alcohol abuse and alcoholism is this. (vocab word)
What is physical dependence?
300
The liver can process this amount of drinks in one hour.
What is 1-2 drinks?
400
Name three alternatives to drinking alcohol.
What are playing sports, theatre, clubs etc.?
400
A dangerous condition that occurs when a person drinks too much alcohol in a short period of time.
What is alcohol poisoning?
400

A potentially fatal inflammation of the pancreas often associated with long-term alcohol consumption.

What is pancreatitis?

400
A person who provides an alcoholic with alcohol or does not try to help someone they know is suffering from alcoholism.
What is an enabler?
400
Two part question: 1. At what B.A.C are you legally intoxicated? 2. what is the instrument used to get your approximate blood alcohol content? (blow into this device)
What is .08 and breathalyzer?
500
Each year thousands of teens in the United States are killed due to this poor choice.
What is drinking and driving?
500
Name 5 short term effects of alcohol?
What are slurred speech, drowsiness, headaches, slowed reaction time, blackouts?
500

An unusual type of memory disorder that most often happens in people with alcohol use disorder and malnutrition.

What is Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome?

500
Name four problems an alcoholic may have in their life?
-loss of family -loss of friends -problems at work -problems at school -legal problems
500

True: Some alcohol-related brain damage is reversible sometimes within 14 days of abstinence.

True or False: Is alcohol brain damage reversible?

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