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Alcohol

Lessons

• Lesson 1 Alcohol and Your Body

• Lesson 2 Immediate Effects of Alcohol

• Lesson 3 Long-Term Effects of Alcohol

• Lesson 4 Alcohol and Decision Making

• Lesson 5 Alcohol, Driving, and Injuries

• Lesson 6 Pressure to Drink

• Lesson 7 Deciding Not to Drink

• Lesson 8 Alcoholism

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Lesson 1 Alcohol and Your Body

Bellringer

List as many alcohol products as you can.

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Objectives

• Describe how the body processes alcohol.

• Explain blood alcohol concentration.

• Identify three factors that affect an individual’s reaction to alcohol.

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What happens to your body when you drink alcohol?

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Types of Alcoholic Beverages

• Wine Wine comes from fermented grapes and other fruits.

• Beer Beer is made from fermented grains, including barley and wheat.

• Liquor Some spirits and liquors, such as whiskey, vodka, brandy, and gin, are made from fermented plants and then processed further to increase their alcohol content.

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Alcohol in Your Body

• Alcohol Is a Drug Alcohol has very little nutritional value. In fact, alcohol acts as a poison or a drug in your body. In excessive amounts, alcohol is a poison.

• Affecting Your CNS Alcohol depresses the ways in which your CNS controls your body. Alcohol also affects your kidneys, liver, and digestion.

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Alcohol and Your Brain

• Your Behavior Alcohol affects the parts of your brain that control behavior.

• Alcohol and Impairment As the amount of alcohol in your blood increases, your thinking, memory, and judgment are impaired.

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Alcohol in the Blood

• Blood Alcohol Concentration Blood alcohol concentration (BAC) is the amount of alcohol in the bloodstream.

• Alcohol and Your Liver Your liver can process only about two-thirds of an ounce of liquor or 8 ounces of beer per hour.

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Individual Reactions to Alcohol

• Different Reactions Each person’s body reacts to alcohol a little differently. And one person’s reactions may be different each time the person drinks alcohol.

• Alcohol’s Effects Alcohol’s effects on the body are influenced by several factors. For example, women absorb and metabolize alcohol differently than men do.

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Alcohol’s effects on a person, or on different people, depend on several factors. The same amount of alcohol can have verydifferent effects. Even one drink may be enough to get a person into trouble.



Lesson 2 Immediate Effects of Alcohol

Bellringer

Describe how a person acts when he or she drinks alcohol.

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Objectives

• Describe how alcohol affects a person’s behavior.

• Identify two risks of drinking alcohol.

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What are some effects of drinking alcohol?

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Loosing Control

• Intoxication is the physical and mental changes produced by drinking alcohol.

• Alcohol Poisoning is the damage to physical health caused by drinking too much alcohol.

• A hangover is the uncomfortable physical effects caused by alcohol use, including headache, dizziness, stomach upset, nausea, and vomiting.

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Injury and Harm

• As BAC rises, you become less likely to see risks or predict possible harmful consequences.

• Alcohol is often involved in fights, assaults, car crashes, robberies, or abuse of others. But alcohol is not an excuse for harming others or for damaging property. You are still responsible for your actions.

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Lesson 3 Long-Term Effects of Alcohol

Bellringer

Explain why drinking alcohol may be especiallyharmful to teens.

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Objectives

• Identify two long-term effects of drinking alcohol.

• Explain why it is dangerous for pregnant women to drink alcohol.

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Why is it dangerous for a pregnant woman to drink alcohol?

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Alcohol’s Damage

• What Is Cirrhosis? Cirrhosis is a deadly disease that replaces healthy liver tissue with useless scar tissue. Cirrhosis is most often the result of long-term exposure to alcohol.

• Alcohol and the Brain Alcohol also affects the brain. These effects may impair learning, memory, and verbal skills.

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Alcohol and Pregnancy

• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Fetal alcohol syndrome may include mental retardation, organ abnormalities, and learning and behavioral problems.

• Abstaining from Alcohol Any woman who is or thinks she may be pregnant should abstain from alcohol—there is no known safe level of alcohol during pregnancy.

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Lesson 4 Alcohol and Decision Making

Bellringer

People often lose inhibitions when they are under the influence of alcohol. List some inhibitions that people may lose when they drink, and identify a possible effect of losing these inhibitions.

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Objectives

• Explain how drinking alcohol affects a person’s ability to make decisions.

• Describe the relationship between alcohol and violence.

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How does alcohol affect a person’s ability to make decisions?

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Alcohol Influences Social Decisions

• Alcohol and Inhibitions Alcohol relaxes your inhibitions. An inhibition is a mental or psychological process that restrains your actions, emotions, and thoughts.

• Recognizing Risks Alcohol also makes you less likely to recognize risks or dangerous situations. You may take physical risks that would seem unreasonable if you were sober.

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Alcohol and Violence

• Becoming Violent Alcohol increases the chances that a person will become involved in violence. The violence may be directed at:

1. the drinker

2. others

3. property

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Alcohol is a major cause of boating accidents, drowning, car crashes, and illegaldrug use.

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Lesson 5 Alcohol, Driving, and Injuries

Bellringer

List the possible consequences for a teenager who was driving after drinking alcohol.

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Objectives

• Explain how alcohol impairs a person’s ability to drive.

• Describe how people are trying to stop drunk driving.

• Identify three types of injuries other than driving injuries in which alcohol may be involved.

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Why is drinking and driving so dangerous?




A Deadly Decision

• Reaction Time Even one drink can slow a driver’s reaction time. Reaction time is the amount of time from the instant your brain detects an external stimulus until the moment you respond.

• Deadly Effects Alcohol blurs a driver’s vision and reduces a driver’s coordination, memory, ability to figure distances, judgment, and concentration.




Stopping the Injuries

• SADD and MADD Groups such as SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) and MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) have formed to educate people about the dangers of drunk driving.

• Laws Stronger laws, stricter enforcement, and increased public education about these issues has reduced the numbers of crashes and fatalities.







Lesson 6 Pressure to Drink

Bellringer

Complete the following sentence:

When I am a parent, I will tell my child _____________ about alcohol.

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Objectives

• Identify three pressures that tempt teens to drink alcohol.

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How might you feel pressured to drink?

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Internal Pressure

• Curiosity Perhaps the most common internal pressure for teens is curiosity. They want to know what it feels like to drink.

• Peer Pressure When some teens see others drinking, they may join in so that they don’t feel left out or different.

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Internal Pressure

• Impressing Others Teens may drink because they think that drinking makes them look mature and adult or that drinking will impress others.

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External Pressures

• Advertisements Alcohol advertising is everywhere—TV, radio, Web sites, magazines, and billboards. The advertising message is that drinking is attractive and normal.

• Seeing Others Drink External pressures to drink also come from seeing people drinking in different places and situations, such as at parties, sporting events, family gatherings, and restaurants.

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Lesson 7 Deciding Not to Drink

Bellringer

Identify your top five reasons for not drinking alcohol.

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Objectives

• Identify three steps you would take when deciding not to drink alcohol.

• Identify two ways to resist internal pressures to drink.

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What should you ask yourself when deciding not to drink?

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Making the Decision Not to Drink

• It’s Your Decision! The decision to drink or not to drink is always your decision. Take responsibility for it.

• Making Friends with Nondrinkers It’s easier to decide not to drink if you are with friends who share your values.

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Resisting Internal Pressure

• If you think about how drinking could hurt you or get you into trouble, resisting internal pressures to drink may be easier. Ask yourself:

1. What activities and people make me happy?

2. What makes me feel like an adult and in charge?

3. What are the likely consequences if I drink?

4. What pressures do I really feel, and how can I avoid or stop them?

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Lesson 8 Alcoholism

Bellringer

Make a list of criteria that you think could be used to diagnose alcoholism.

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Lesson 8 Alcoholism

Objectives

• Compare physical dependence and psychological dependence.

• Describe how alcoholism can affect a person’s social, mental, and emotional health.

• Identify three factors that contribute to alcoholism.• Describe how a person can overcome alcoholism.

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Lesson 8 Alcoholism

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What causes alcoholism?

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Lesson 8 Alcoholism

Physical Dependence

• What Is Physical Dependence? Physical dependence is the body’s chemical need for a drug.

• Alcoholism and Dependence A drinker who is physically dependent on alcohol has the illness of alcoholism.

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Psychological Dependence

• What Is Psychological Dependence?Psychological dependence is a person’s emotional or mental need for a drug.

• Trying to Feel Normal Someone who has alcoholism feels the need to drink to cope with responsibilities, stress, and problems. He or she drinks to feel normal—or not to feel bad—and to deaden his or her feelings.

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Lesson 8 Alcoholism

Factors That Contribute to Alcoholism

• Alcoholism is a complex illness, and a number of factors may contribute to it, including:

1. exposure to alcohol

2. emotional pain

3. genetic makeup

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Lesson 8 Alcoholism

Overcoming Alcoholism

• What Is Recovery? Recovery is learning to live without alcohol.

• Abstinence from Alcohol A requirement of any alcoholism treatment program is abstinence from alcohol. A person who has alcoholism is always at risk of the illness if the he or she begins to drink again.

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