Why is Alcohol Harmful?
21
What is the legal age that you can drink at?
When the body doesn't get all of the nutrients it needs
What is malnutrition?
A condition in which fat builds up in the liver and can't be broken down
What is fatty liver?
A progressive disease involving a mental and/or physical need for alcohol
What is alcoholism?
A return to the use of a drug after attempting to stop
What is a relapse?
Other ways of thinking or acting..
What are alternatives?
30 seconds
How long does it take for alcohol to reach the brain?
16,000
In 2005, how many people were killed in alcohol-related car crashes?
Can alcoholism ruin a persons life?
Someone who has an addiction to alcohol, but chooses to live without it
What is a recovering alcoholic?
The percentage of alcohol-caused traffic accidents..
One third.
95%
How much alcohol does the liver break down?
DWI
Driving while intoxicated
People who create atmospheres for alcoholics to do their thing in.
What are enablers?
Physical and psychological reactions that happen when a person stops using an addictive drug
What is withdrawal?
Most are not drinking alcohol..
How many teens are underage drinking?
0.08%
At what BAC is a person intoxicated?
A conscious or unconscious restraint of one's own abilities
What is inhibition?
What are a few symptoms of alcoholism?
S.T.O.P
What is a strategy to refuse alcohol?
"just say no"
What is a tactic that you can use to avoid using alcohol?
12 oz.
How much beer would equal 0.6 oz. of pure alcohol?
Sores in the stomach that cause bleeding
What are ulcers?
50 billion
Alateen
What is a group that helps teens deal with alcoholic parents?