Prevalence
% of Americans that drink alcohol
What is 54%? (2025 Gallup poll)
List some drinking behaviors you have seen
Example answers: not drinking, drinking with dinner, drinking on a Friday night in a bar, drinking to see who can get the most drunk, chugging contest)
List three reasons for not drinking
Examples answers:
- dislike taste
- don't like getting drunk
- illegal
- religious and cultural reasons
- staying in shape for sports
- don't want to look silly
- want to stay in control
Alcohol (what is it)
What is...a drug contained in beverages such as beer, wine, seltzers, or hard liquor
% of people who are heavy drinkers (8+ drinks for women, 15+ drinks for men in one week)
What is 6%?
Abstinence means...
What is not drinking at all?
Name your top reason to not drink
Answers will vary
True or false: Alcohol is a drug
True
% of high school seniors that drink regularly (daily)
What is 2.7%?
What is using alcohol to cope with problems or negative feelings.
Three reasons teenagers decide to drink
Example answers:
- look grown up
- be more popular
- look cool
- feel less nervous with friends or new people
- boredom
- peer pressure
Alcohol: stimulant or a depressant
What is a depressant?
% of Americans who don't drink
What is 35%
The consequences of problem drinking
What is: This kind of drinking is destructive and can increase problems
What is: It slows down the brain's activities?
List some consequences of compulsive/problem drinking
What are fights, illness, auto accidents, alcohol related chronic disease?
1. List one effect of small amounts of alcohol:
2. List one effect of larger amounts of alcohol:
(on your body)
Example answers:
1. Slow down your ability to think clearly, make poor decisions
2. Slow down other areas of the brain, cause dizziness, decrease coordination, make it hard to speak, walk, stay awake, pass out, lose memory