Coach Graner

1. Name as many “slang” words as you can for a person that is intoxicated. 2. The only way a person can sober up is through what process? 3. What is the legal drinking age for a person in our state? 4. It takes more or less time for a teenage to become an alcoholic?

5. When the legal drinking age increases the death rates (increase or decrease)? 6. T/F When mixing other drugs with alcohol it can increase the effects of the drugs or alcohol 7. If a person has 3 drinks in an hour how long will it take the person to eliminate all alcohol from body? 8. About what percentage of all auto accidents involve alcohol?

9. About what percentage of alcohol is process through the liver? 10. What is the difference between “proof” and “% of alcohol” in alcoholic beverages? 11. Drinking during pregnancy can cause what to the child? 12. What is the amount of alcohol in a legal beverage serving?

Alcohol – class of chemical compound. Ethyl alcohol is the form of alcohol that humans can consume. Alcoholism – Disease in which a person is dependant mentally and physically to alcohol. Must have the substance to perform daily tasks.

It is the amount of beverage that delivers ½ ounce of pure ethanol 12 oz beer; 3-4 oz. of wine; 1 oz of 100 proof all have the same amount of pure alcohol. What is a drink?

Moderate – Does not drink excessively; health not harmed Social – Drinks only on social occasions. Will act the way social scene dictates the event. Binge – Drinks 4 or more drinks in a short period Problem – suffers social, emotional, family, job related problems due to alcohol – On way to alcoholism Alcoholic – Disease in which person is dependant of alcohol. Causes out of control behavior.

 Awful feeling of headache, unpleasant sensations, nausea that a drinker feels after drinking excessive amounts. Mild form of withdraw  Delirium – is a much worse from of withdraw where tremors may occur as well as delusions.

 Enabler – a person that allows addiction of another to continue. The person “thinks” they are helping the addicted person but, they are truly not by allowing the addiction to continue. Codependent – An Enabler within the family that goes through the same things as the addicted person but, have no addiction.

 Al-Anon – Groups designed to help family and friends of an alcoholic  AA – Alcoholics Anonymous

 The 12 Steps  Step 1 - We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - that our lives had become unmanageable Step 1  Step 2 - Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity Step 2  Step 3 - Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God Step 3  Step 4 - Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves Step 4  Step 5 - Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs Step 5  Step 6 - Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character Step 6  Step 7 - Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings Step 7  Step 8 - Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all Step 8  Step 9 - Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others Step 9  Step 10 - Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it Step 10  Step 11 - Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out Step 11  Step 12 - Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs Step 12