Alcohol Basics
Effects on Body
Effects on Activity
Effects on Inner Organs
Intervention
100
A certain beverage that slows down the central nervous system and harms body organs.
What is alcohol?
100
Continuous consumption of alcohol lowers it.
What lowers blood pressure?
100
All body senses are dulled when drinking alcohol.
What is/are the sense(s) that is dulled when drinking alcohol?
100
In the stomach
In what organ does the increase flow of gastric juices happen when continually alcohol-ridden?
100
The action by people such as family members who want the drinker to get treatment.
What is formal intervention?
200
Twenty Percent (20%)
What percent of alcohol is quickly absorbed into the bloodstream?
200
It increases which can lead to atherosclerosis, which harms heart tissue and increases your risk of stroke.
What happens to your blood sugar?
200
The infection cells get fewer and the risk for disease increases as well as your risk of cancer.
What happens to the immune system when drinking?
200
Ulcer's can be developed in the stomach.
What is the organ that develop ulcer's if continually given alcohol?
200
He or she helps make the treatment plan.
What is a counselor's role in a formal intervention?
300
It goes to all body tissues before being excreted.
What happens when alcohol enters the blood?
300
The risk of cancer increases in this throat area.
What increases in the mouth, pharynx, larynx, and esophagus?
300
It dulls your brain of your reasoning and judgement. 50% of accidents result from a DUI.
How does alcohol affect reaction time?
300
It can cause inflammation of the pancreas which increases risk of diabetes.
What effect does alcohol have on the pancreas?
300
Treatment that does not require overnight stay.
What is outpatient care?
400
The lungs and urine.
Where is 5% of the alcohol excreted through?
400
Alcohol impairs brain and leads to dementia as well.
What causes blackouts, seizures, and/or nerve destruction?
400
Under the influence of alcohol, people believe that they can do things that they can't, such as swimming in dangerous waters.
What is the reasoning that 70% of drownings result from being drunk?
400
Live cancer or cirrhosis(Cirrhosis being a disease where liver tissue is destroyed and replaced with scar tissue)
The consumption of alcohol may lead to what in the liver?
400
Care given during a stay at a facility such as a hospital or mental health facility.
What is inpatient care?
500
How Much Alcohol a Person Drinks, How Fast a Person Drinks It, The Weight of the Drinker, How the Drinker Feels, How Much a Person has Eaten, and/or other Drugs in the Bloodstream.
What are six factors that affect the blood alcohol concentration?
500
Impairment of brain and therefore decline.
What does alcohol lead to intellectually?
500
The brain.
Which body part is mostly affected by alcohol?
500
They dilate.
What happens to blood vessels?
500
The return to an addictive behavior after a period of stopping the action.
What is a relapse?
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