1. How much is a Drink? One Half Ounce is considered a drink of alcohol.
1 beer
4-5 ounces of wine
1 shot
1 mixed drink

2. BAC Factors that effect Blood Alcohol Content
Amount of alcohol consumed
Number of drinks and strength
Speed it is consumed
Faster increases BAC
Can be dangerous
Body weight
Bigger body=more blood
Percentage of body fat
Lean body tissue is more absorbent
Gender
Females
Less stomach enzymes to break down alcohol in stomach to enter blood stream.
Less lean body tissue

3. BAC More Factors Feelings Food eaten Other drugs in the system Age
Stress, anger, and fear can speed up the time it takes alcohol to enter the bloodstream
Food eaten
If someone has alcohol on an empty stomach the alcohol enters the bloodstream much faster.
Other drugs in the system
Tranquilizers and painkillers can heighten the effects of alcohol.
Age
Elderly people are more sensitive to the effects of alcohol
Carbonation
Carbonated beverages pass through the bloodstream faster then non-carbonated beverages.

4. What happens as BAC Increases?
0.02-feel relaxed
0.05-speech may slur, decreased coordination and reaction time.
Reasoning, judgment, self control, muscular coordination and reaction time are seriously slowed.
.12-confused and disoriented. May start to vomit.
.2-emotions are unpredictable and may change drastically.
.3- little or no control/most people can not stay awake during this time.
.4-likely to become unconscious. Breathing and heart rate slow. Death can occur.
.5-people may enter deep coma and die.

5. How Alcohol affects the Body
Nervous system
Impairs the brain and other parts of the nervous system, such as nerve cells.
May cause blackouts, seizures, and dementia
Digestive system
Ulcer open sore on the skin or on a mucus membrane.
Alcohol increases the secretion of stomach acids.
Liver disease-three stages
1st stage- the liver becomes enlarged with fatty tissue.
2nd stage- liver swells even more because of alcohol hepatitis.
Can cause serious illness or death
3rd stage-can cause cirrhosis which is when there is chronic damage to liver cells.
Can cause liver failure or death.
Only way to treat advanced stages is to have a liver transplant
Reproductive system
During puberty it can
postpone menstruation for women
Decrease size of testes for men

6. How Alcohol affects the Body
Immune system
Depresses the function of the immune system
Long term drinking lowers the number of infection fighting cells in the body.
Cardiovascular System
May damage cardiovascular organs
Increased risk for
Cardiovascular disease
High blood pressure
Stroke
Skeletal System
Makes the body lose calcium
Urinary system
Long term can increase kidney failure

7. Drinking During Pregnancy
(FAS) Fetal Alcohol Syndrome-Babies born with severe birth defects because mother was drinking during pregnancy
Small slit eyes
Small head
Delayed physical and mental growth

8. Laws Under 21 21 or over Underage drinking starts at .02 BAC
Drivers under 21 are legally drunk at .02 or more BAC
21 or over
Drivers are legally drunk at .08 BAC or more
Public Drunkenness
If acting intoxicated
No set BAC level

9. Alcoholism A physical and physiological dependence on alcohol.
Not all alcoholics drink everyday
Binge drinking alcoholics
Functioning alcoholics
Hard to treat
Denial-acceptance is the first step
Withdrawal
Nauseous
Anxious
Agitated
Tremor or “the shakes”
Vomiting

10. Getting Help
Alcoholism is a disease, like most diseases it can be treated
Alcoholics need treatment, usually short and long term
Alcoholics anonymous or AA is the most common
Signs that show higher risk individuals for alcoholism
Genetics
Childhood behavior
Psychiatric Disorders
Self-esteem
Parents

11. Peer Pressure What are some tips for saying NO?
What is the best way to not have peer pressure to drink alcohol or do drugs?
Does who you associate with affect what you will be around?