L. 1: Why is Alcohol Harmful
What is a drug that is produced by a chemical reaction in fruits, vegetables, and grains?
Alcohol
What is intoxication?
a person’s mental and physical abilities have been impaired by alcohol.
What is cirrhosis.
a disease charac-
terized by scarring and eventual destruction of the liver.
What s a physical or psychological need for a drug.
Addiction
What is a gathering in which family and friends get the problem drinker to agree to seek help.
An intervention
What type of drug is alcohol?
A depressant
Which contains more alcohol beer or wine?
Wine.
What BAC is legally drunk?
0.08
People with alcoholism are called ________.
Alcoholics.
Treatment for alcoholism begins with the alcoholic’s understanding that he or she has an addiction and must never drink, again. If an alcoholic takes even one drink, there is the chance that he or she will have a _______.
Relapse
What is the drinking age?
21
Alcohol can lower ones ________
inhibition
What are the five major symptoms of alcoholism?
Denial, Craving, Loss of control, Tolerance, Loss of control.
Choose friends who are ___________. They will support your decision not to use alcohol.
Alcohol free
What does SADD stand for?
Students Against Destructive Decisions.
What happens when someone consumes to much alcohol.
intoxication
Babies with _____ can have smaller body sizes,
lower birth weight, and other problems.
FAS
How many stages of alcoholism is there.
______ teaches family and friends about alcoholism
and helps them understand how they have been affected. It also
teaches them skills for coping with the many problems alcohol-
ism creates.
Al-anon
How many teen traffic deaths are due to alcohol?
1/3
malnutrition
Heavy drinking damages the heart muscle, causing the heart to become ___________________.
Weakened and enlarged.
Underage drinking costs society over __________ dollars every year.
50 billion.
_______ is the process of learning
to live an alcohol-free life, and is usually long and difficult.
Recovery.