Effects of Alcohol
What is a type of drug that slows down the functions of the Central Nervous System (slows down heart rate and breathing, lowers blood pressure)
What is a depressant
The legal drinking age for all alcoholic beverages in N.C.
What is 21?
The leading cause of death for alcoholics.
What is cirrhosis of the liver?
The amount of alcohol in a person’s bloodstream.
What is Blood Alcohol Level
or
Blood Alcohol Concentration?
The length of time an adult can lose his or her license if convicted of DWI.
What is one year?
The birth defects associated with the use of alcohol during pregnancy.
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
The blood alcohol level for “Driving While Impaired.”
What is 0.08?
Periods of time when a problem drinker or an alcoholic cannot remember what they did.
What is black out?
Overdose of alcohol.
What is alcohol poisioning?
The length of time a person can spend in jail if he or she causes a death in a drinking and driving accident.
What is a life sentence?
Even when taken in small amounts, combining these types of drugs with alcohol can cause coma or death because they multiply each other’s effects.
What are tranquilizers, sedatives, or sleeping pills?
A 12-ounce can of beer or wine cooler, a 5-ounce glass of wine, or a mixed drink with a shot glass of hard liquor equal this.
What is 1 drink?
The name of either the support group for alcoholics or the support group for the children of alcoholics.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous?
Or
What is Alateen?
Having to increase the amount someone drinks to feel the same effects.
What is tolerance?
Besides alcohol, what else could be considered Driving While Impaired.
What are other drugs/intoxicants?
(Example: marijuana)
One of the factors that determine how alcohol affects an individual.
What is: (only need one)
body weight?
the speed of drinking?
food present in the stomach?
previous drinking experience?
the person’s mood?
whether they are male of female?
The length of time it takes the body to eliminate one drink.
What is 1 hour?
The average length of time it takes a teenager to become addicted to alcohol with regular drinking.
What is 6 –18 months?
The physical symptoms that happen when a person is addicted to alcohol and he/she cannot get any alcohol to drink.
What are withdrawal symptoms?
The length of time a teenager can lose his or her license if convicted of DWI.
What is 30 days for an underage drinker?
Alcohol blocks this part of the brain's process by preventing it from functioning properly.
What is Judgement?
The percent of car accident deaths that involve drinking and driving.
What is 40% (approx. 41%)
An alcoholics lives ___ - ___ years less than a non-alcoholic.
What is 10-12 years?
The burning up process of alcohol in the body.
What is oxidation?
How often does a death due to drinking and driving occur in the U.S.?
29 people = 1 death every 50 minutes.