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Vocab
Misc.
100
Three Factors that Influence Alcohol Use
What is peer pressure, family, and media messages
100
A severe and potentially fatal physical reaction to an alcohol overdose
What is alcohol poisoning
100
The need to drink increasingly greater amounts of alcohol in order to feel its effects
What is tolerance
100
A drug that slows the central nervous system
What is depressant
100
Legal BAC limit in Indiana
What is 0.08
200
Legal age limit to drink alcohol in the United States
What is 21
200
The 2 most noticeable effects of alcohol poisoning
What is hypothermia and slow respiration
200
Steps to Recovery
What is #1- Admission #2- detoxification #3- counseling #4- recovery
200
the amount of alcohol in a person's blood, expressed as a percentage
What is Blood Alcohol Concentration
200
Explain the Life Line Law
If someone is drunk and possible poisoned by alcohol, a person is able to call 911 without getting him/herself or their friend in trouble
300
The main cause of deaths including drowning, fire, suicide and homicide
What is alcohol
300
Short-term effects of Drinking
What is body size and gender, food, amount and rate of intake
300
Long term effects in the liver
Fatty liver- fat builds up and can't be broken down Alcoholic Hepatitis- Infection of the liver Cirrhosis- liver tissue is replaced with scar tissue
300
The process of learning to live an alcohol-free life
What is recovery
300
Explain why drinking and driving is so dangerous
(answers may vary) When one is drunk, their perception, speeds, and distances are altered. Also, it is difficult to focus when intoxicated so it would be very easy to get into an accident when drunk.
400
Effects of drinking alcohol and then being involved in sexual activity
What is HIV, STDs, and negative mental and social consequences
400
Consequences of DWI
What is harm to others or yourself, death, property damage, loss of trust, fine, jail time (answers may vary)
400
The 3 steps of Alcoholism
What is #1- abuse: begins to drink and become drunk regularly #2- dependence: physical dependence on the drug #3- addiction: alcohol is the most important thing in a person's life
400
Living without alcohol
What is sobriety
400
Reasons of why alcohol and medication should not be taken together
It creates a multiplier effect where the medication has a greater or different effect than if it were taken alone. It becomes very dangerous.
500
Benefits of staying alcohol free
What is maintaining a healthy body, making responsible decisions, avoiding risky behaviors, and avoiding illegal activities
500
Effects in the nervous and digestive system
Nervous: Brain (less control over body &affected vision and speech), Memory (concentration is dulled), and Judgment (it is altered and coordination is impaired) Digestive: Stomach, Liver, and Kidneys
500
Damages of the fetus when the mother drinks alcohol
What is small head and deformities of the face, hands, or feet; heart, liver and kidney defects and possible vision and hearing problems. Also, slow growth and coordination and difficulties learning
500
A process in which the body adjusts to functioning without alcohol
What is detoxification
500
Short term effects of Alcohol
What is it slows reflexes, reduces a persons ability to judge distances and speeds, increases risk-taking behaviors, and reduces a person's concentration