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Drugs that slow down the body's functions and reactions.
Depressants
What is the definition of Blood Alcohol Content (BAC)?
a measure of the amount of alcohol present in a persons blood?
disease characterized by scarring and eventual destruction of the liver
cirrhosis
type of addiction in which the body itself feels a direct need for a drug
Physical dependence
What is the definition of relapse?
a return to the use of a drug after attempting to stop.
What is the BAC percentage to make a person legally intoxicated?
0.08
Alcohol affects?
Memory, speech, judgment, vision and hearing.
This condition in which fats build up in the liver and can not be broken down
Fatty liver
The definition of Tolerance is?
the process in which your body needs more and more of a drug to get the same effect.
the physical process of freeing the body of an addictive substance. What vocab word is this?
Detoxification
"Teens who avoid alcohol may want to seek positive _________ to drinking."
Alternatives
Those who rink are likely to act?
violently
"people who drink large amounts of alcohol are more likely to develop ____ or throat cancer."
Mouth
How many stages of alcoholism is there?
Four
Recovery only starts after the alcoholic makes the _________ never to drink again
Commitment
"_____ of all teen traffic deaths are related to alcohol."
1/3 or One-third
Drinking a lot or very quickly overworks what organ?
Liver
Alcohol irritates?
The stomach lining
Alcohol abuse is a pattern of drinking that results in one or more well-defined behaviors with in a __________ period
12 month
"Research has shown that alcohol can interfere with long and ___________ "
Short-term growth
Alcohol reaches the brain within ___ seconds of swallowing.
30
In 2005, over _____ people were killed in alcohol related crashes.
16,000
Underage drinking cost society more than ____________ Dollars a year.
50 Billion