L. 1: Why is Alcohol Harmful
A drug which slows down the body's functions and reactions
What is a depressant?
The dangerous condition that results when a person drinks excessive amounts of alcohol over a short time period
What is alcohol poisoning?
The conscious or unconscious restraint of a person's own behaviors or actions
What is inhibition?
The process in which your body needs more and more of a drug to get the same effect
What is tolerance?
The physical process of freeing the body of an addictive substance
What is detoxification?
The kind of alcohol which is produced by fermentation
What is ethanol?
The organ which is most affected by excessive alcohol intake
What is the liver?
stomach, liver, pancreas, and heart
What are organs that alcohol can damage?
How many times more likely for teens 15 and younger to be addicted to alcohol than people who are older
What is 4x?
These steps include admission, counseling, detoxification, and resolution.
What are the steps on the road of recovery from alcoholism?
The gender which is more easily affected by alcohol use
What is female?
Sores that cause bleeding
What is the first stage of alcoholism?
These symptoms include headaches, tiredness, strong mood swings, and nausea.
What are the symptoms of withdrawal?
Some examples of this are participating in sports, theatre, arts, and volunteering in your community instead of drinking alcohol.
What are alternatives?
What is food?
The point of blood alcohol content at which a person is legally considered intoxicated
What is 0.08%?
The amount of money which drinking costs society in a year
What is over 50 billion dollars?
What are mental/emotional, social, and physical?
The fraction of all traffic deaths related to alcohol
Alcohol consumption will slow this.
What is reaction time?
Smaller body size, lower birth weight, heart problems, kidney problems, and learning disabilities
What are potential symptoms of fetal alcohol syndrome?
These symptoms include failure to fulfill major work, drinking in dangerous situations, having ongoing alcohol-related legal problems, and continuing to drink even when it is harming relationships.
What are the symptoms of alcohol abuse?
The skills which help a person abstain from dangerous activities when being peer pressured
What are refusal skills?