Alcohol Mechanics
The specific chemical compound in all alcoholic beverages.
What is ethanol (or ethyl alcohol)?
The brain's "memory factory" targeted by alcohol, leading to blackouts.
What is the Hippocampus?
The addictive agent in vapes that acts as a neurological toxin.
What is nicotine?
The life-threatening medical emergency of consuming a toxic amount of alcohol too quickly.
What is alcohol poisoning (or overdose)?
The first step in the decision-making model: STOP, THINK, CHOOSE.
What is STOP?
This organ breaks down alcohol at a fixed rate of about one standard drink per hour.
What is the liver?
The outer layer of the brain responsible for complex thought and language.
What is the Cerebral Cortex?
The industrial chemical used in weed killer that causes irreversible lung injury.
What is Acrolein?
The dangerous pattern of consuming four (women) or five (men) or more drinks in about two hours.
What is binge drinking?
The irreversible scarring of the liver tissue caused by chronic heavy alcohol abuse.
What is Cirrhosis?
The precise percentage of alcohol in the bloodstream.
What is Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC)?
This part of the teen brain controls judgment and impulse, and is damaged by nicotine.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
The common name for Bronchiolitis Obliterans, a disease caused by inhaling diacetyl.
What is "Popcorn Lung"?
A sign of alcohol poisoning: less than this many breaths per minute.
What is 8 breaths?
The legal status of possessing or purchasing vaping products for a minor.
What is illegal?
Why individuals with less body water (generally smaller and those assigned female at birth) feel effects faster.
They have less water to dilute the alcohol.
The ancient part of the brain suppressed by alcohol during alcohol poisoning, controlling breathing and heart rate.
What is the medulla (or brain stem)?
The highly toxic metal that flakes off heating coils and is harmful to the developing nervous system.
What is Lead?
A consequence of alcohol that is a "magnifying glass" for risky behavior and significantly increases the risk of assault.
What is a loss of inhibitions (or clouded judgment)?
The severe respiratory illness caused by vaping that leads to widespread lung damage.
What is EVALI?
What it means when alcohol bypasses most of the digestive process.
What is rapid absorption (or direct absorption)?
The term for a temporary form of amnesia where a person is awake but cannot form new memories.
What is a blackout?
The known human carcinogen formed when the heating element overheats Propylene Glycol and Vegetable Glycerin.
What is Formaldehyde?
The dangerous paradox where young users feel less dizzy but their physical risk remains extremely high.
What is functional tolerance?
What the acronym FASD stands for, which is caused by drinking during pregnancy.
What is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders?