Facts & Stats
When you build this, the body can handle more and more of alcohol or drugs.
What is tolerance?
Your ____ is the main defense against poisons and impurities in our blood.
What is the liver?
What is decreases?
These drugs include alcohol, barbitautes, tranquilizers, and opiates such as heroin and marijuana under most conditions.
What are suppressors, sedatives, or downers?
The return to that pattern of drinking or drug use is called _______.
What is relapse?
This is the legal limit for Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) for drivers of drinking age.
What is 0.08?
This system is your body's ability to fight off diseases and infection.
What is the immune system?
Drinking during pregnancy may result in this syndrome.
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
These drugs speed up the mind and body.
What are enhancers, stimulants, or uppers?
Headaches, nausea, and mood swings are examples of this.
What are withdrawal symptoms?
A mixed drinking containing these is absorbed into the body more quickly than straight shots.
What are carbonated drinks or energy drinks?
Thanks to ____, if you are male and have a father who had an alcohol problem, you are much more likely to have an alcohol problem.
What is genetics?
Use of this drug and driving results in slower reaction times, increased weaving between lanes, and reduced peripheral vision.
What is marijuana?
When you are doubting that it's worth trying to change your substance use, you are at this point of change.
What is precontemplation?
Both marijuana and alcohol use increase the risk of this potentially fatal disease.
What is cancer?
Alcohol belongs to a group of drugs known as _____.
What are depressants?
This occurs when dead liver cells turn to scar tissue.
What is cirrhosis?
Physical effects of long-term drug/alcohol use are more common in this age group.
What are adolescents?
This is the way we handle threats to our view of ourselves, and we spend our entire life using this to defend our sense of "self".
What is defensive thinking?
Returning to the behavior of driving a motor vehicle while having an alcohol BAC of .05 or higher is called _____ __________.
Drugs that can both speed up and slow down the body and mind are _____.
What are rounders?
The ______ ______ is what happens when the drug is in the body.
What is the direct effect?
This syndrome is caused by severe deficiency of thyamine (vitamin B-1), and most commonly caused by alcohol use.
What is Korsakoff syndrome?
Alcohol is a _______ - ________ ____. It is a system suppressor or downer.
What is a sedative-hypnotic drug?
The statement; "Screw em'! No one is going to tell me I can't drive" is an example of this kind of attitude.
What is a high-risk attitude?