vocab 1
This word refers to the type of alcohol found in beverages.
What is ethanol?
This common beverage ingredient is made when yeast breaks down sugars in grains or fruits.
What is alcohol created by fermentation?
This medical emergency happens when someone consumes more alcohol than their body can handle.
What is alcohol poisoning?
This percentage of global deaths each year is attributed to alcohol consumption.
What is 5.3%?
This three-letter abbreviation measures how much alcohol is in a person’s bloodstream.
What is BAC?
This process uses yeast to turn sugars into alcohol.
What is fermentation?
This organ works the hardest to break down alcohol, which is why heavy use can damage it.
What is the liver?
A long-term condition where a person is unable to control their alcohol use.
What is alcoholism?
In the U.S., this fraction of adults binge drinks roughly 4 times per month.
What is 1 in 6?
A person who struggles with alcohol use is often referred to by this word.
What is an alcoholic?
This type of drug slows down the brain and body.
What is a depressant?
This type of accident becomes far more likely when a person tries to drive after drinking.
What is a car crash?
A pattern of using alcohol in a harmful or unsafe way.
What is alcohol abuse?
Alcohol raises the risk of this many types of cancer, including breast and liver.
What is 7?
This term means the process of improving health after stopping alcohol use.
What is recovery?
This term means the physical and mental effects a person experiences after consuming alcohol.
What is intoxication?
This age group is at higher risk for alcohol-related harm because their brains are still developing.
Who are teenagers?
This is when the body becomes used to alcohol and needs it to function normally.
What is physical dependence?
Compared to women, men are about this many times more likely to binge drink.
What is 3 times?
This word means choosing not to drink any alcohol at all.
What is sobriety?
This dangerous pattern involves consuming a large amount of alcohol in a short time.
What is binge drinking?
Long-term alcohol misuse can lead to this type of disease involving scar tissue replacing healthy liver tissue.
What is cirrhosis?
This type of dependence involves emotional or mental need for alcohol.
What is psychological dependence?
In 1967, this couple captured what is considered the most famous “evidence” of Bigfoot in Northern California, a film that remains controversial among scientists.
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Who are Roger and Patty Patterson?
I’m a number that rises when someone drinks too fast.
Doctors check me to keep people safe,
and the law watches me so accidents don’t happen.
What am I?
what is BAC?