Lesson 4
What is alcoholism?
A progressive, chronic, disease involving a mental and physical need for alcohol.
What is alcohol?
A drug produced by a chemical reaction in fruits, vegetables and grains.
What is malnutrition?
a condition in which the body doesn't get nutritions it needs to grow and function properly.
What is cirrhosis?
A disease characterized by scarring and eventual destruction of the liver.
What is relapse?
A return to the use of a drug after atempting to stop.
What is addiction?
A physical or psychological need for a drug.
What is a drepressant?
What is the BAC person that a person is legally intoxicated.
0.08
When there are unplanned teens pregnancies what percent are using alcohol?
one third of them had been using alcohol.
It can damage a teens what?
Physical, mental/emotional, and social health.
Whats alcohol abuse?
A pattern of drinking that results in one or more well-defined behaviors within a 12 month period.
What's a reason teens should not use alcohol.
It will harm the brain's ability to learn and ability to learn and it is illegal.
Females are not affected more quickly than a male when drinking alcohol. True or False?
False women are affected more when drinking alcohol.
How does alcohol disrupts the brain?
It can destroy brain cells.
What is one thing a person can do to help with alcohol abuse?
Going to counseling.
What is tolerance?
A process in which your body needs more and more of a drug to get the same effect.
What is an alternative?
Other ways of thinking or acting.
Alcohol is a slow acting drug. True or False
False it is a fast reacting drug
What is something that happens when a person drinks regularly?
Health problems like damage to organs.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous?
An organization that is for recovering alcoholics.
What is physical dependence?
A type of addiction in which the body itself feels a direct need for a drug.
Most teens are drinking alcohol - True or false?
False, teens are not drinking alcohol.
People who are heavily intoxicated are at risk for?
Alcohol poisoning.
How does heavy drinking affect the heart?
It can make the heart weakened and enlarged.
What is the first step to stop drinking?
Admission.