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What Happens to your brain???
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What do you think binge drinking is?
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binge drinking as a pattern of drinking that brings a person’s blood alcohol concentration (BAC) to grams percent or above
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Question 1. Which contains more alcohol, a 12-ounce bottle of beer that is 5 percent alcohol or 1 ounce of whiskey that is 50 percent alcohol? Show your calculations.
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Question 1. Which contains more alcohol, a 12-ounce bottle of beer that is 5 percent alcohol or 1 ounce of whiskey that is 50 percent alcohol? Show your calculations. The serving of beer contains more alcohol than does the serving of whiskey. Beer: 12 ounces x 0.05 (that is, 5% alcohol) = 0.6 ounce alcohol Whiskey: 1 ounce x 0.50 (that is, 50% alcohol) = 0.5 ounce alcohol
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Question 2. Based on your calculations, is it safer for a person to drink beer than it is to drink whiskey?
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Question 2. Based on your calculations, is it safer for a person to drink beer than it is to drink whiskey? The higher alcohol content of the beer in Question 1 demonstrates that it is not safer to drink beer than it is to drink hard liquor. Rather, the alcohol content and volume consumed determine the effects of the alcoholic beverage on an individual.
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Psychoactive Drugs Four Main Groups: Stimulants Depressants Opiates
Drugs that affect the Central Nervous System (CNS) of the brain Four Main Groups: Stimulants Depressants Opiates Hallucinogens
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Stimulants Speed up CNS Ex: Nicotine, Cocaine, Amphetamines
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Depressants Slow down CNS Ex: Barbiturates, GHB, Tranquilizers
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Hallucinogens Alter mood, judgement, thoughts, and sense of perception Ex: PCP, DXM, Mushrooms( Psilocybin), Ecstasy, LSD
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Opiates Narcotics from the opium plant, used to relieve pain Ex: Morphine, Heroin, Codeine
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Marijuana and Inhalants
Presentations Write Signs and symptoms/Long term effects
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Signs and Symptoms/ Long-term
Tobacco Marijuana Cocaine Heroin Meth Chewing Tobacco Inhalants
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