The percentage of alcohol that is in a person's blood.
What is blood alcohol concentration?
The consumption of a large amount of alcohol in a short period of time.
What is binge drinking?
What is alcoholic?
Groups of people who communicate about their struggles and progress in battling a shared problem.
What is support group?
What is metabolize?
True or False: If two people drink the exact same amount of alcohol at the exact same time, it will impact them the same.
What is false?
A medical emergency in which a person has had enough alcohol to slow their central nervous system.
What is alcohol poisoning?
A disease in which a person is completely dependent on alcohol.
What is alcoholism?
The legal drinking age in the United States.
What is 21?
The most common symptom of a hangover.
What is a headache?
Term for the uncomfortable physical symptoms caused by excessive alcohol consumption. Also, the title of a hit comedy movie.
What is hangover?
Adults who drive under the influence of alcohol with a BAC level of this number are at risk for getting a DUI.
What is 0.08?
The consumption of no more than one alcoholic drink per day for women or no more than two alcoholic drinks per day for men.
What is moderate drinking?
The most well-known and widely used self-help program for alcohol abuse.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous
A necessary step in defeating addiction that means complete withdrawal from a substance.
What is detoxification?
The psychological restraint that discourages people from engaging in dangerous behaviors.
What is inhibition?
Term for a group of serious birth defects caused by a woman's consumption of alcohol while pregnant.
What is fetal alcohol syndrome?
The practice of consuming alcohol in a setting of which there are other people around and it is being done for enjoyment.
What is social drinking?
Encouraging an addict's destructive behaviors, either intentionally or unintentionally.
What is enabling?
According to the text, this percent of victims of violent attacks report the attacker was under the influence.
What is 35%
A substance that slows the central nervous system and causes chemical changes in the brain.
What is depressant?
DAILY DOUBLE: What major organ of the body is impacted the most by alcohol over a long period of time using?
What is the liver?
Term describing periods of memory loss after drinking alcohol.
What is a blackout?
Daily Double: The term used to describe the quitting strategy of somebody trying to stop drinking entirely at that exact time.
What is cold turkey?
Daily Double: A buildup of scar tissue in the liver; often leads to death.
What is cirrhosis?