Why is Alcohol Harmful
A drug that is produced by a chemical reaction in fruits, vegetables and grains.
What is Alcohol?
Ability to respond quickly and appropriately.
What is Reaction time?
Fat build up in the liver that cannot be broken down
What is fatty liver?
Physical or psychological need for drug.
What is addiction?
A gathering in which family and friends get the problem drinker to agree to seek help
What is intervention?
The chemical reaction in fruits vegetables and grains.
What is Fermentation?
An illegal driving intoxication.
What is a BAC over 0.08?
Disease characterized by scarring and eventually causing destruction of the liver
What is cirrhosis?
A progressive, chronic disease involving a mental and physical need for alcohol.
What is alcoholism?
Return to the use of a drug after attempting to stop
What is relapse?
A drug that slows down the body's functions and reactions.
What is a Depressant?
Excessive amounts of alcohol intake in a short period of time causing death.
What is alcohol poisoning?
3 in every ten Americans will be involved in an alcohol related crash at one point in their life.
What is an Alcohol traffic death?
A process in which your body needs more and more of a drug to get the same effect.
The process of learning to live an alcohol-free life.
What is recovery?
Other ways of thinking or acting.
What is an alternative?
When the body doesn't have any nutrients.
What is malnutrition?
consumption of a large quantity of alcohol in a short period of time.
What is binge drinking?
What is physical dependance?
The physical and psychological reactions that occur when someone stops using an addictive substance.
What is withdrawal?
Hundreds of these occur per year.
What is teen drunk driving?
An organ that breaks down 95 percent of all alcohol consumed.
What is the liver?
A conscious or unconscious restraint of a persons own behaviors or actions.
What is inhabitation?
What is an enabler?
The physical process of freeing the body of an addictive substance.
What is detoxification?