Addiction
True or False Binge drinking is OK because your only ever drinking every once in a while?
False because it is a lot of drinking at once.
What can excessive drinking rise in your body. (make something go up)
Excessive drinking can lead to high blood pressure
Can alcohol effect your coordination?
What is the main reason people feel the need to drink?
They feel it relieves stress
What does alcohol do to the brain?
Alcohol makes it harder for the brain areas controlling balance, memory, speech, and judgment to do their jobs.
People think alcohol helps them deal with stress, does it actually?
No because it is causing more ling term stress and damage.
What is a BIG example of what 20 years of alcohol can to your body?
cCn cause severe health issues, including liver disease, pancreatitis, cardiovascular diseases, and increased cancer risk.
Can alcohol have effects on your organs?
Organs known to be damaged by long-term alcohol misuse include the brain and nervous system, heart, liver and pancreas.
True or false mixing alcohol and drugs can make the alcohol healthier and better for you.
False, If you drink alcohol while using other drugs, the effects may be stronger and more deadly than using either one alone.
Can alcohol lead to digestive problems?
Yes alcohol can hurt and effect your digestive problems.
What is a bad thing about being addicted to alcohol that makes it hard when you try to quit?
Heavy drinking over a long period of time can leave the body needing alcohol every day.
What does alcohol overtime do to the neurons in your brain?
Long-term heavy drinking causes alterations in the neurons, such as reductions in their size.
Can alcohol make you talk weird?
Yes alcohol can lead to slurred speech.
True or false drinking WAY to much can result in some parts of the body or your whole body shutting down?
True, Continuing to drink despite clear signs of significant impairments can result in an alcohol overdose. An alcohol overdose occurs when there is so much alcohol in the bloodstream that areas of the brain controlling basic life-support functions—such as breathing, heart rate, and temperature control—begin to shut down.
Can alcohol damage your pancreas?
Alcohol damages cells in the pancreas, the organ that makes insulin to keep blood sugar levels in check. You may get a painful swelling called pancreatitis, ...
True or false when you try to quit an alcohol addiction it can have really bad effects?
True because the breaking of the addiction can cause the body SO MUCH STRESS.
Can alcoholic beverages lower your immune system?
Yes, the immune system can start recovering within a few days to a week after reducing or stopping alcohol consumption.
True or false alcohol can cause lots of confusion?
True
How many people in the U.S abuse alcohol? (over use it)
Nearly 14 million people in the United States –– 1 in every 13 adults –– abuse alcohol or are alcoholic. How much do you know about alcohol use and abuse? Find out by taking this quiz, based on information from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
Alcohol has big effects on your brain and lots of symptoms since alcohol throws off your balance how many people die daily from drunk driving?
Every day, about 37 people in the United States die in drunk-driving crashes
Family plays the biggest role in a person's likelihood of developing alcoholism.
What is the cells that line the inside of the small intestine
Epithelium
What are some effects of drinking a lot?
(Name two at least)
Inappropriate behavior, unstable moods, poor judgment, slurred speech, problems with attention or memory, and poor coordination
What is something that can trap the alcohol from being broken down and getting rid of it in your stomach?
Food, food traps the alcohol in the stomach and is hard to break down.
Ethanol