Alcohol Basics
This is the main organ in your body that is affected by alcohol.
What is the Liver
An illness caused by consuming too much alcohol, that causes scarring of the liver.
What is Cirrhoses?
Name one reason teens may use alcohol.
What are: peer pressure, curiosity, family history?
The age which one is legally able to drink alcohol.
What is 21?
1 out of 10 people who drink become....
What are alcoholics?
When the brain completely shuts down breathing and/or swallowing this is called?
What is alcohol poisoning?
The 2 ways someone can be addicted to alcohol...
What is physically and mentally?
The amount of alcohol it takes to damage a teenager's brain versus an adult's brain.
What is 2x or twice as much?
True or False: Parents are legally allowed to give their own children alcohol.
What is true?
A community resource for husbands, wives, family and friends.
What is Alanon?
When children become chemically dependent on alcohol it is called?
What is addiction?
Alcohol is the 3rd leading cause of this in the USA.
What are preventable deaths?
The age at which a brain is fully developed.
What is age:
a.) 18
b.) 25
c.) 21
BAC stands for...
A community resource for the alcoholic themself.
What is AA or Alcoholics Anonymous?
The first brain function you lose under even a small amount of alcohol.
What is judgement?
FAS stands for....
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
A community resource available for teens children of alcoholics.
What is Alateen?
The legal intoxication limit for teens is..
What is .02?
A chronic disease in which a person craves drinks that contain alcohol and is unable to control his or her drinking.
What is alcoholism?
Adolescents who bring drinking before age _________ are more likely to develop alcohol dependence than those who begin at age 21.
What is:
a. 12
b. 15
c.18
This effect of alcohol includes cancer of body organs, heart disease, ulcers and early death.
What are long term effects of alcohol use?
Alcohol is hard on a growing body; Teen Alcohol Addiction AND Teens attitude toward drinking.
What are the main reasons teens SHOULD WAIT to drink until they are 21.
The legal intoxication level for adults is anything less than...
What is .08?
Drinking a lot of alcohol in a few hours is called...
What is binge drinking?