L. 1: Why is Alcohol Harmful
A drug that is produced by a chemical reaction called fermentation.
What is Alcohol?
A measurement of the amount of alcohol present in a persons blood
What is Blood Alcohol content?
What is teen suicide?
A process in which your body needs more and more of a drug to get the same effect.
What is tolerance?
What is denial?
The legal drinking age in the USA.
What is 21 years old?
What is a depressant?
The way alcohol is digested.
The worts problems with alcohol.
Its habit-forming.
What is an intervention?
An alternative to drinking alcohol.
What is theater, arts, volunteering, advocacy, or sports?
The reasons alcohol affects people differently.
What is gender, body size, other drugs mixed with alcohol, previous food eaten, the persons general health, how fast someone drinks, the amount someone drinks?
The effect of alcohol irritation the stomach lining.
What is the increasing of acid after drinking for prolonged periods.
The third stage of alcoholism.
What is the alcoholic has less control of themselves.
What is recovery?
A reason teens fall behind in school.
What is underage drinking?
The recommended size of beer.
What is 12 oz?
The way the liver is affected by scaring tissue.
What is reducing blood flow?
The most common enablers.
What are the family members of an alcoholic?
Ways family of alcoholics can help their alcoholic.
What is Alcohols-Anonymous, or Al-Anon?
Advocacy groups that try and help teens make smart choices.
Who are the SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions), and the T.A.T.U(Teens Against Tobacco Use)?
A negative way people behave under the influence that involves harming others.
What is violent behavior?
The traits of fetal alcohol syndrome.
What is lower birth weight, problems with heart and kidneys, and learning disabilities.
The underage drinking cost.
What is 50 billion dollars a year?
Some common symptoms of withdrawal from alcohol.
What are mild to severe reactions like headaches, tiredness, strong mood swings, and nausea?