L. 1: Why is alcohol harmful?
The kind of alcohol you drink is called ___, and is produced by a chemical reaction called ___.
ethanol, fermentation.
Alcohol is a fast- acting drug and reaches the brain within how many seconds after being swallowed?
30 seconds
Since alcohol is a depressant, which does it affect: your emotional, mental, or physical health?
your emotional health.
Teens 15 and younger are ____ times more likely to become addicted than others.
four times
During recovery, alcoholics often _____ after taking even one drink of alcohol.
relapse
What two main parts if your body does alcohol affect?
Your brain and central nervous system.
When alcohol reaches the brain, does it slow down or speed up reaction time?
slows down reaction time
Is alcohol digested like other food in your stomach, or go to your blood?
Goes directly to your blood.
In order, list the five major symptoms of the health problems drinkers develop.
1. Denial
2. Craving
3. Loss of Control
4. Tolerance
5. Physical dependence
What is an intervention?
a gathering in which family and friends get the problem drinker to agree to seek help.
Are most teens drinking? Explain why or why not.
No, many of them realize the negative effects alcohol has on your health.
intoxicated
What type of cancer are people who drink large amounts of alcohol more likely to develop than people who don't drink?
mouth or throat cancer
____ is something that family or friends feel when someone they know has become an alcoholic.
Denial
What does someone have to have to recover?
commitment
Two Good ways alcohol affects you, & two bad ways are...
You can become friendly and relaxed, or you can become depressed or angry.
Define Blood alcohol content (BAC), then tell the BAC when a person is legally intoxicated?
a measure of the amount of alcohol present in a person's blood. 0.08% is the legal intoxication.
What parts of the brain is alcohol responsible for disrupting?
Memory & Problem solving, and other brain cells.
The total cost of alcohol- related problems is about ___._ billion dollars a year. Is that more or less than the total cost of smoking/ drug related problems?
175.9 billion dollars, more than
Which specific friends/ family members need to recover after living with alcoholism?
enablers
Three reasons why teens drink are...
1. Helping their problems/relaxing them
2. Makes them look more cool/ grown up
3. Peer pressure
Are Females or Males affected more quickly by alcohol? Are bigger or smaller people more quickly affected by alcohol?
Females, smaller people
On average, someone is killed in a car crash involving alcohol every __ minutes.
31 minutes
What's the difference between alcohol abuse and alcoholism?
During alcoholism, people are physically dependent on the drug whereas people who abuse alcohol are not.
Does someone who has recovered from alcoholism have to accept the responsibility for their actions, or do they deny their actions?
They have to accept and take responsibility for their actions.