Why is Alcohol Harmful
What is the legal drinking age?
What is 21
How long does it take Alcohol to reach the brain?
What is 30 seconds
Does Alcohol cause damage to the body?
Yes
What can alcohol lead to (hint: like a drug)
What is addiction
What is a gathering in which family and friends get the problem drinker to agree to seek help
What is intervention
What kind of Alcohol did we go over in this unit?
What is ethanol
If a person continues to drink, his or her what will start to rise?
What is Blood Alcohol Content (BAC)
What is a conscious or unconscious restraint of a person’s own
behaviors or actions.
What is inhibition
Teens ____ and under are ____ times more likely to come addicted than older individuals
Whats is 15, and 4
What is recovery starts only after the alcoholic makes the _____ to never drink again
What is commitment
How much of teen traffic deaths are related to alcohol?
What is 1/3
What is considered legally intoxicated?
What is 0.08
How can alcohol cause teen pregancy?
What is using alcohol can lower a person’s inhibitions and affects the ability to make healthy decisions.
How many Americans are alcoholics or have an alcohol abuse problem?
What is 14 million
What are the steps to recovery?
What is one of the advocacy groups mentioned in the Ch.1 L.1 book?
What is:
Against Destructive Decisions (SADD)
Teens Against Tobacco Use (T.A.T.U.)
Youth for Environmental Sanity
What is a dangerous condition that results when
a person drinks excessive amounts of alcohol over a short time period.
What is Alcohol poisoning
What parts of the brain does alcohol affect?
What is Alcohol disrupts the parts of the brain responsible
for memory and problem solving.
What are the symptoms of alcoholism? (Hint:5)
What is Denial, Craving, Loss of control, tolerance, and physical dependence
What is the Al-Anon group?
What is a nonprofit group teaches family, and friends about alcoholism
and helps them understand how they have been affected
What are one of the things teens say when it comes to drinking?
What is:
“Drinking will help me for-
get about my problems.”
• “I’ll look more grown-up
with a drink in my hand.”
• “Movies make drinking
look cool.”
• “My friends keep pressur-
ing me to try alcohol.”
• “A drink will help
me relax.”
What amount of domestic violence cases are related to alcohol abuse?
What is 2/3
What is alcohol absorbed by?
What is absorbed by tissues lining the mouth and stomach, and goes directly into the blood.
What is underage drinking costs society more than __ billion dollars a year
What is 50
What do you do when you find yourself in a situation in which you feel pressured to try alcohol?
What is use refusal skills. (practice the S.T.O.P. strategy discussed in Chapter 2. State your decision clearly and assertively. When you speak assertively, you are letting people know you are serious. If the pressure continues, walk away. If needed, get help from a parent or other adult.)