Lifetime Health Ch 10

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Section 3 Teens and Alcohol

Warm up

• Write down 5 ways that drinking alcohol can impair a person’s driving.

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Section 1 Alcohol Affects the Body

Alcohol Is a Drug

• Alcohol is the drug found in beer, wine, and liquor that causes intoxication.

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

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Short-Term Effects of Alcohol

• Effects on the Body

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1. Alcohol irritates the mouth, throat, esophagus, and stomach.

2. Alcohol makes the heart work harder.3. Alcohol makes the body lose heat.4. Alcohol causes the liver to work harder.5. Alcohol causes dehydration.





• Effects on the Mind

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1. Alcohol slows down the nervous system.2. The drinker loses inhibitions.3. The drinker cannot focus his or her eyes.4. The drinker may have slurred speech.5. The drinker loses coordination and judgment.





• Blood alcohol concentration (BAC) is the amount of alcohol in a person’s blood expressed as a percentage.

• Alcohol has different effects at different BACs.• Binge drinking is the act of drinking five or more

drinks in one sitting.• Binge drinking can lead to alcohol poisoning, and can

be fatal.

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Long-Term Effects of Alcohol• Prolonged use of alcohol can damage the heart,

blood, liver, kidneys, pancreas, the digestive tract, and the immune system.

• Cirrhosis is a disease caused by long-term alcohol use in which healthy liver tissue is replaced with scar tissue.

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Long-Term Effects of Alcohol• Alcohol causes permanent changes in the brain due

to cell death from dehydration and lack of oxygen.• Alcoholism is the second leading cause of dementia

in the United States.

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What Is Alcoholism?

• Alcohol abuse is drinking too much alcohol, drinking it too often, or drinking it at inappropriate times.

• Alcoholism is a disease that causes a person to lose control of his or her drinking behavior.

• Alcoholics are physically and emotionally addicted to alcohol, and suffer painful symptoms when they do not have alcohol.

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Alcoholism Develops in Stages





• Risk factors for alcoholism include:

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• Age• Social environment• Genetics• Risk-taking personality

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Alcoholism Affects the Family

• Families of alcoholics may suffer from the following:

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• Guilty feelings• Unpredictable behavior• Violence• Neglect and isolation• Protecting the alcoholic• Ignoring one’s own needs

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Alcoholism Affects the Family

• Enabling means helping an addict avoid the negative consequences of his or her behavior.

• Codependency is the condition in which a family member or friend sacrifices his or her own needs to meet the needs of an addict.

• Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is a set of physical and mental defects that affect a fetus that has been exposed to alcohol because of the mother’s alcohol consumption while pregnant.





Alcoholism Can Be Treated

• There are many treatment options for alcoholics. • Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is the most widely

used program. It involves a 12-step recovery method and regular meetings.

• Al-Anon and Alateen provide treatment and support for people with alcoholics in their family.





Drinking and Driving: A Deadly Combination• Motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of

death among teens.• Many of these accidents are alcohol-related.• Alcohol impairs driving through the following means:

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• Slows your reaction time• Affects your vision• Makes you drowsy• Reduces your coordination• Affects your judgment




Drinking and Driving: A Deadly Combination

• Alcohol use is illegal for people under 21.• Driving under the influence (DUI) applies to anyone

with a BAC above 0.08.• The law has zero tolerance for anyone under 21

driving with any amount of alcohol in their blood.

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Drinking and Driving: A Deadly Combination

• To avoid getting in dangerous situations with an intoxicated driver:

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• Don’t drink• Plan ahead: pick • a designated driver• Make arrangements • with a parent for a ride• Call a cab




Drinking Puts Your Future at Risk

• Drinking and Jail You can be sent to jail for trying to buy alcohol, possessing alcohol, possessing a fake ID, or for drinking in a public place.

• Drinking and Sexual Activity The impaired judgment from drinking can put you at risk of any of the dangers of unplanned sexual activity.

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Drinking Puts Your Future at Risk

• Drinking and Diving Alcohol plays a role in more than 38 percent of drowning accidents in the U.S.

• Drinking and Teen Brains Alcohol use affects the rapidly developing brains of teens.

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Saying No to Alcohol

• The best way to avoid alcohol is to stay away from people who drink and places where people are drinking.

• You should practice ways of saying “No” so you will be prepared when someone offers you a drink.

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Joining the Fight Against Drunk Driving

• Two organizations that spread information and work to end problems with drunk driving are:

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• Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)• Students Against Drunk Driving (SADD)• “Every 15 minutes”



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Quotes About Character

“If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.”

—Chinese Proverb




“One falsehood spoils a thousand truths.”

—African Proverb




“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”

—Mark Twain




“Our reverence is good for nothing if it does not begin with self-respect.”

—Oliver Wendell Holmes




“When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.”

—Japanese Proverb




“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson




“A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.”

—Lord Jeffrey




“To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.”

—Aristotle




“He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.”

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow




“The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.”

—Japanese Proverb




“Dreams are the touchstones of our character.”

—Henry David Thoreau




“A man’s character is his fate.”

—Heraclitus




“Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.”

—Aristotle




“What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.”





“Abstinence is the surety of temperance.”

—Plato




“This above all, to thine own self be true/And it must follow, as the night the day/ Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

—William Shakespeare




“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character .”





“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way . . . you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.”

—Aristotle




“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”

—Socrates




“Do what you know and perception is converted into character.”





“Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.”

—Sophocles




“Character is higher than intellect.”





“To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.”

—Confucius




“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.”

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow




“Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.”





“That soul that can be honest is the only perfect man.”

—John Fletcher




“One does evil enough when one does nothing good.”

—German Proverb




“There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.”

—French Proverb




“Don't forget to love yourself.”

—Soren Kierkegaard




“Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.”

—Orison Swett Marden




“What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do.”

—John Ruskin




“Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.”

—Horace Greeley




“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”

—James D. Miles




“Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”

—William Penn




“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.”

—George Eliot




“Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.”

—Elbert Hubbard




“A man without character is like a ship without a rudder.”

—Karl G. Maeser




“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”

—Thomas Paine




“Character is power.”

—Booker T. Washington




“An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.”

—Robert Baden-Powell




“Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.”

—Woodrow T. Wilson

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