Body Impacts of Alcohol
If a person has a 0.8 BAC the are considered.
What is drunk?
1.4 million are arrested when driving being this.
What is driving under the influence?
A complete dependency on alcohol.
What is alcoholism?
Education, refusal skills, and government approaches.
What are examples of alcohol abuse?
A general term used to describe a drink that contains a certain amount of ethanol.
What is Alcohol?
Food consumed, body weight, gender, and ethnicity influence.
WHat is Blood alcohol concentration (BAC)?
Cancer, gastrointestinal problems, and cardiovascular problems are caused by this.
What causes heavy drinking?
3 factors that contribute to alcohol abuse.
What are biological, genetic, and environmental factors?
Detoxification, medications, support groups, and self-management techniques.
What are strategies for treating alcoholism?
A substance that slows the central nervous system and causes chemical changes in the brain.
What is a Depressant?
Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC)
What is the percentage of alcohol present in a person's blood?
Physical, school, family and social, and legal problems are examples of this.
What are the Immediate effects of underage drinking?
Examples of environmental factors.
What are family, friends, and media?
Encouraging an alcoholics destructive behaviors.
What is enabling?
The consumption of a large amount of alcohol in a short period of time.
What is Binge Drinking?
When alcohol reaches the brain it changes the level of chemicals called.
What are neurotransmitters?
Long term effects of underage drinking.
What are changes in brain development and growth?
Seeing alcohol in movies can cause more of what.
What is teenage drinking?
Just saying no.
What are refusal skills?
A buildup of scar tissue in the liver and often leads to death.
What is Cirrhosis?
The ounces of pure alcohol in a drink to be considered an alcoholic drink.
What is 0.6 ounces?
Mental confusion, vomiting, seizures, and hypothermia are symptoms.
What is alcohol poisoning?
The stages of substance abuse.
What is experimentation, regular use, tolerance, dependence, and addiction?
A medication that helps people stop drinking by make unpleasant side effects occur when drinking alcohol.
What is Antabuse?
A necessary step in defeating addiction that means complete withdrawal from a substance that may cause intense anxiety, tremors, and hallucinations.
What is Detoxification?