Understanding Alcohol
Is an addictive depressent
Alcohol
Psychological restraint that keeps people from acting in dangerous ways
Inhibition
Drinking no more than one drink on the same occassion
Moderate Drinking
Negative symptoms caused by excessive alcohol use
Hangover
A standard drinks consist of a beer, a shot, and
Glass of Wine
Pure form of alcohol
Ethanol
I cannot remember what I did after I drank
Hippocampus
8 parts alcohol to 10,000 parts Blood
0.08%
Build up of scar tissue on the liver
Cirrhosis of the liver
Drinking Alcohol effects every
Single cell in your body
Percentage of Alcohol in a persons blood
BAC
I almost stopped breathing because of how much I drank.
Medulla
Consuming 8-15 drinks in one week
Heavy Drinking
Poor growth, delayed speech, changes in facial development
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
BAC of 0.08% is
Intoxicated
AUD
Alcohol Use Disoder
I tried to step on the brakes, but it took me a long time to move my foot from the gas.
Cerebellum
Slow down the nervous system including the brain
Depressents
Alcohol damages this developing part of the teen brain
Prefrontal Cortex
NM's teen alcohol police
0.02%
Alcohol Overdose
Alcohol Poisoning
I drank so much I made poor decision making
Cerebral Cortex
Consuming 5 drinks or more on any given occasion
Binge Drinking
Ethnicity can affect a person BAC
An Enzyme
How much I weigh can affect
BAC