Why is Alcohol Harmful?
Other ways of thinking or acting.
Alternatives
The ability of the body to respond quickly and appropriately to situations.
Reaction Time
Cirrhosis
Persons who create an atmosphere in which the alcoholic can comfortably continue his or her unacceptable behavior.
Enablers
A return to the use of a drug after attempting to stop.
Relapse
Drugs that slow down the body's functions and reactions.
Depressants
This BAC means the person is legally intoxicated
.08%
A condition in which fat builds up in the liver and cannot be broken down.
Fatty Liver
This is the biggest symptom of alcoholism.
Denial
The physical and psychological reactions that occur when someone stops using an addictive substance.
Withdrawal
This fraction represents how many teen traffic deaths are related to alcohol.
1/3
Alcohol reaches the brain within this amount of time.
30 seconds
A conscious or unconscious restraint of a person's own behaviors or actions.
Inhibition
Teens 15 years or younger are this many times more likely to become addicted to alcohol than older individuals.
4 times
The physical process of freeing the body of an addictive substance.
Detoxification
This type of alcohol is used as a beverage.
Ethanol
This gender is affected more quickly when it comes to alcohol.
Alcohol increases the amount of acid in the stomach and can cause these.
Ulcers
Around this many Americans are alcoholics or have an alcohol abuse problem.
14 million
A gathering in which family and friends get the problem drinker to agree to seek help.
Intervention
Ethanol alcohol is produced by a chemical reaction called this.
Fermentation
The liver breaks down this percentage of alcohol consumed.
95%
On average, someone is killed in a car crash involving alcohol every this amount of time.
31 minutes
This stage of alcoholism includes long periods of being intoxicated all the time.
Stage 4
This is at the start of recovery, and it includes the person admitting they have an addiction.
Admission