L1 Why Is Alcohol Harmful
Drugs that slow
down the body’s functions and reactions.
What are depressants?
A dangerous condition that results when
a person drinks excessive amounts of alcohol over a short time period.
What is Alcohol poisoning?
A conscious or unconscious restraint of a person’s own
behaviors or actions.
What is Inhibition?
Persons
who create an atmosphere in which the alcoholic can comfortably continue his or her unacceptable behavior.
What are Enablers?
The process of learning
to live an alcohol-free life.
What is recovery?
Drinking will help me for-
get about my problems.
What is an excuse a teen my use for drinking?
The time it takes alcohol to reach the brain.
What are 30 seconds?
The need for alcohol mentally and physically.
What is addiction?
The parts of life effected by an alcoholic.
What are Physical, mental/emotional, and social health?
The understanding that you have a drinking problem and you have to stop.
What is the beginning of treatment?
The amount of teens drinking alcohol.
What are most of them are not?
The blood alcohol content that can make someone light headed.
What is 0.02?
The amount of people killed in alcohol-related crashes in 2005.
What is 16,000?
The amount of Americans with an alcohol abuse problem.
What is 14 million?
These can be mild to very severe and include
headaches, tiredness, strong mood swings, and nausea.
What are the symptoms of withdraw?
Teens that are falling behind in school.
What are teens that are drinking alcohol?
Something that absorbs alcohol.
What is food?
The four organs that are mainly affected by alcohol.
What is the heart, the stomach, the liver, and the pancreas?
The five major symptoms of Alcoholism.
What are denial, craving, loss of control, tolerance, and physical dependance?
When the alcoholic resolves or makes the decision to accept responsibility for
his or her actions.
What is resolution?
Students
Against Destructive Decisions
What is an advocacy group for teens drinking alcohol?
The amount of domestic violence cases caused by alcohol.
What is 2/3?
The reason alcohol effects babies worse than adults.
What is an undeveloped liver
When a person looses control and cannot stop drinking. Agressive behavior could be included.
What is stage three of alcoholism?
Ways to stop peer pressure.
What are the S. T. O. P. stradgedies?