Alcohol Basics
Name one of the two main organs in your body most affected by alcohol.
What is the Brain OR Liver?
FAS stands for...
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
Name one reason teens may use alcohol.
What are: peer pressure, curiosity, and family history?
The age at which one is legally able to drink alcohol.
What is 21?
1 out of 10 people who drink become....
What are alcoholics?
When the brain completely shuts down breathing and/or swallowing this is called?
What is alcohol poisoning?
The 2 ways someone can be addicted to alcohol...
What are physical and mental?
The amount of alcohol it takes to damage a teenager's brain versus an adult's brain.
What is 2x or twice as much?
True or False: Parents are legally allowed to give their own children alcohol.
What is true?
A community resource for husbands, wives, family, and friends.
What is Alanon?
When someone becomes chemically dependent on alcohol it is called?
What is addiction?
Alcohol is the 3rd leading cause of this in the USA.
What are preventable deaths?
The age at which a brain is fully developed.
What is age:
a.) 18
b.) 25
c.) 21
BAC stands for...
What is Blood Alcohol Content?
A community resource for the alcoholic.
What is AA or Alcoholics Anonymous?
The first brain function you lose under even a small amount of alcohol.
What is judgment?
An illness caused by consuming too much alcohol, that causes scarring of the liver.
What is Cirrhoses?
A community resource available for teens and children of alcoholics.
What is Alateen?
The legal intoxication limit for teens is..
What is .02?
A chronic disease in which a person craves drinks that contain alcohol and is unable to control his or her drinking.
What is alcoholism?
Adolescents who start drinking before age _________ are more likely to develop alcohol dependence than those who begin at age 21.
a. 12
b. 15
c. 18
What is 15?
This type of effect of alcohol includes cancer of body organs, heart disease, ulcers, and early death.
What are long-term effects of alcohol use?
Alcohol is hard on a growing body; Teen Alcohol Addiction; Teen's attitude toward drinking, and How alcohol affects behaviors are all related
What are the main reasons teens SHOULD WAIT until they are 21 to drink?
The legal intoxication level for adults is anything less than...
What is .08?
The consumption of an excessive amount of alcohol in a short time.
What is binge drinking?