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Drugs Education Unit 1 Part 2c: Binge Drinking

Drugs Education Unit 1Part 2c: Binge Drinking

KS4 PSHEE Personal Wellbeing

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Alcohol poisoning

The body has an automatic response to poison, which is to reject it, normally through vomiting.

However, because alcohol is a depressant, it slows down the nervous system and brain function of the body. When this happens, the body’s impulse to vomit can be stopped.

If you drink more than your body is able to process, thereby poisoning yourself, your body will vomit up the excess.

This can result in the body continuing to absorb alcohol that it is unable to process, and this is when

alcohol poisoning is the most dangerous.

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If the body cannot vomit the excess alcohol, it has no choice but to try to absorb and process it.

Alcohol poisoning

This means the alcohol continues to depresses the nervous system and brain function of the body.This can lead to the brain shutting down completely and cause unconsciousness, coma and even death.

In the UK, thousands of people die from alcohol related causes each year.

Sometimes such deaths occur after binge drinking bouts or as a result of competitions and bets.

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Binge drinking in the news

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Social dangers of binge drinking