Lesson 5
What is withdrawal?
The physical and psychological reactions that occur when someone stops using a substance.
What is reaction time?
The ability of the body to respond quickly and appropriately to situations?
What is Binge Drinking?
The consumption of a large quantity of alcohol in a very short period of time.
What is addiction?
A physical or psychological need for drug?
What is alcohol?
A drug that is produced by a chemical reaction in fruits, vegetables, and grains.
What is relapse?
The use of a drug while trying to stop.
What is intoxication?
It means that a persons mental and physical abilities have been impaired by alcohol?
A disease characterized by scarring and eventual destruction of the liver.
What is alcoholism?
A progressive chronic disease involving a mental physical need for alcohol.
What is a Depressant?
Drugs that slows down the bodies functions and its reactions.
What is recovery?
The process of learning to live an alcohol free life.
A measure of a persons alcohol present in the blood stream.
What is fatty Liver?
A condition in which fat builds up in the liver and cannot be broken down.
What is an enabler?
a person who creates an atmosphere where alcoholism can be comfortably be performed.
What is a Alternative?
Other ways of thinking or reacting.
What is detoxification?
The physical process of freeing the body of an additive substance.
What is Alcohol Poisoning?
a dangerous condition that happens when a person drinks an excessive amount of Alcohol in a short period of time?
What is inhibition?
a conscious or unconscious restraint of a person's own behaviors or actions
What is Alcohol Abuse?
A pattern of drinking that results in one or more well defined behaviors in a 12 month period.
What are risks of drinking?
Risking Health
Its Illegal
It will not make you a strong person.
What is intervention?
a gathering in which family and friends the the drinker to seek help.
What is malnutrition?
A condition in which the body doesn't get the nutrients it needs to grow properly?
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)?
a group of alcohol-related birth defects that include physical and mental problems
What is a symptom of alcohol abuse?
Failure to fulfill major work
Drinking in situations that are physically dangerous
Having ongoing legal alcohol related problems
Drinking even when they feel the effects caused by it
What is what you say to someone who asks you do drink?
"JUST SAY NO!"