9-16-14
1. Get our your Bellwork and a piece of paper.
2. Bellwork question:
1. What you hear the word alcohol, what do you
think?
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Alternatives
Hobby
Alcoholism
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Recovery
Detoxification
Sobriety
Alcohol
Cirrhosis
• Blood alcohol
concentration
• Intoxication
• Binge drinking
• Drug
• Depressant
• Reaction time
• Alcohol abuse
• Alcohol poisoning
• Peer pressure
• Concentric Circles
• Alcohol Concept Splash
• What do you know about alcohol advertising?
• Why do companies pay large amounts of money
to advertise their products?
• How may the advertisements affect teens and
adults?
• What skills do you need to help you evaluate
alcohol advertisements?
9-17-14
1. Get out your Bellwork.
2. Bellwork question:
1. Why do you think the drinking age for alcohol is
21?
• Many social settings encourage drinking
• Beer ads shows people drinking and having a good
time everywhere
• Alcoholic beverages are sold in grocery and
convenience stores
• Some adults make it easy for teens to get alcohol
• Most teens drink because they are curious about what
other people are doing
• Some teens drink because of peer pressure (a feeling
to do something because your friends are and want
you too)
• Teens do not want to feel left out
• Some teens think drinking makes them look and feel
like adults
• They feel more mature with a drink in their hand.
• Some teens are unhappy and hope that alcohol will
make them feel better.
• I look more grown up with a drink in my hand
• If I drink I will be able to forget my problems
• I am stressed about this test, a drink will help
me relax
• My friends keep pressuring me to try alcohol
• The ads make drinking look like fun
• Some teens think drinking makes them look and
feel like adults
• They feel more mature with a drink in their hand
• Some teens are unhappy and hope that alcohol
will make them feel better
• There ARE NO GOOD REASONS TO DRINK
Alcohol is bad for teens for many reasons:
• Teens are still growing
• Teen emotional responses are changing
Truth is: YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DRINK
• Up to two-thirds of suicides on college campuses
involve alcohol
• Almost one-half of all traffic deaths or people
under age 25 involve alcohol
• Nearly a quarter of all violent crimes committed
by teens involve alcohol
• Between one-third and two-thirds of date rape
cases among teens and college students involve
alcohol.
• Most adults have less than one alcoholic drink a
month or don’t drink at all.
• Personal choice
• Feel better to meet their personal duties and
responsibilities if they do not drink
• Religious beliefs
• Family values
• Health problems
ANY REASON FOR NOT DRINKING IS A GOOD
REASON.
• Making Good Decisions: You just found out
your parent is changing jobs and that the
family must move to another state. You don’t
want to leave your friends and are angry that
no one seems to care about what you want.
A friend invites you to a party where beer
will be available. He promises you that you
will feel much better after a few drinks. What
do you decide? Explain the steps you used to
make your decision.
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Alcohol
Cirrhosis
Blood alcohol concentration
Intoxication
Binge drinking
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Drug
Depressant
Reaction time
Alcohol abuse
Alcohol poisoning
• Alcohol is a drug. A drug is any substance that
changes how the mind or body works.
• Alcohol has powerful effects on how your
mind and body work.
• It is a depressant- slows brain and body
functions
9-18-14
1. Get out your Bellwork and your notes.
2. Bellwork question:
1. Give 2 reasons not to drink alcohol.
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Through the mouth
To the stomach
Small and large intestines
Blood carries it to every tissue and organ
It quickly reaches the brain through the blood
Carried to liver where it is converted into harmless waste
products
• It has no nutritional value
• When breaking down alcohol, your body stops making
and storing glucose- sugar for energy
• Drinking too much alcohol is a drug overdose and may
slow your bodily functions, where they stop and you
collapse- alcohol poisoning
• Alcohol Overload
• Liver Failure
• Alcohol slows activities of your body’s CNS.
• It slows your thinking, reactions, and breathing.
• It slurs your speech, blurs your vision, and
interferes with muscle coordination.
• It also negatively affects learning, motivation,
and emotions.
• Alcohol slows the nerves that control your heart
and breathing, a fatal dose will stop these
functions.
• Spin and Perform
• Bad Vision
• Poor Coordination -Try to write your name
and address with your opposite hand. This
would be like alcohol affecting your
coordination.
• Straight Walking
• Depends on the person and how much
alcohol is in his or her blood.
• Generally, 0.40 BAC will be fatal to most
people
• BAC- blood alcohol concentrationpercentage of alcohol in a person’s blood.
• BAC 0.10- means that you have 10% of
alcohol per 10,000 parts of your body.
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Weight
Drinks
What was eaten recently
Amount of alcohol consumed
Gender
• Why is alcohol classified as a drug? What
category of drug is alcohol? What effect do
depressants such as alcohol have on the
body? Is it possible to die from drinking too
much alcohol?
• Each body reacts differently to alcohol
• As BAC rises, intoxication occurs
• Intoxication is the physical and mental
changes produced by drinking alcohol.
• At lower BAC levels, some people feel less
shy or cautious, increased energy, positive
feelings and less anxiety.
• Some people feel sad and negative
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Amount of alcohol consumed
Time frame
Weight
Body size
Amount of food consumed ( help slow absorption time)
Drinking habits
Medicine
Gender
Genetic factors
Women achieve a higher BAC than men who drink the
same.
9-19-14
1. Get out your Bellwork and your notes.
2. Bellwork question:
1. List 4 factors that affect alcohol’s effect on a
person.
• First: Moods
• Second: Physical abilities, then memories
• Third: Muscle coordination, vision blurred, speech and
memory impaired
• Reaction time slows.
• Reaction time is the amount of time that passes from the
instant when your brain detects an external stimulus until
the moment you respond.
• At high BAC levels, the CNS slows down so much that you
may pass out or even die
• Nothing speeds the process up to sober you up- NOT
COFFEE, COLD SHOWERS, OR EXERCISE
• Reaction Time
• While visiting relatives, Angela attends a party
with her married cousin Tina and her husband.
Tina’s husband drove them to the party. While
at the party, Angela observed him drink two
beers and open a third one. She approached
Tina and asked if it was wise for her husband to
be drinking since he was their driver. Tina
laughed and replied, “Don’t worry about him, he
can hold his beer.” Angela is still concerned
about getting in the car with him. What should
she do?
• For anyone 21 and under, a BAC of 0 percent is
illegal.
• It is estimated that 20% of underage drinkers
engage in binge drinking. Binge drinking is
drinking 5 or more at one siting (females -4 or
more). Binge drinking increases the chance that
the drinker will be involved in violence or
harmful behavior. About 16% of those heavy
drinkers have experienced “black outs” after
which they could not remember what had
occurred the previous evening.
• People who start drinking alcohol at a young age are
more likely to abuse alcohol later in life
• Alcohol abuse is the inability to drink in moderation
or at appropriate times
• Regular, heavy alcohol drinkers may develop
tolerance
• Tolerance means they need more and more alcohol to
produce the same effects
• Tolerance is a sign of a drinking problem
• Alcohol abuse is not only drinking too much
• It is also drinking at the wrong time
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Car crashes
Drowning
Overdose
Depression
Family problems
Violence
Can become a victim of physical/ sexual assault
resulting in pregnancy, STIs, STDs, HIV
• Damage their brain
• Damage their CNS
• Show impaired memory and perform poorly
in school
• Reduced verbal skills, never catch up
• Long-term use increase chances of: stroke,
heart disease, cancer, and liver diseasesHepatitis and cirrhosis- scarring and
destruction of the liver
1. How is tolerance a sign of a drinking
problem?
2. Can drinking on the weekends, and not
during the school week still effect school
work?
3. How does alcohol abuse increase the
likelihood of physical assault?
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1. Exit Slip- Identify at least 5 negatives that
alcohol can have on the body.
2. Homework- Bring in a newspaper clipping or
magazine article where someone made a
decision that proved to be costly.
9-22-14
1. Get out your Bellwork and your notes.
2. Bellwork question:
3. Identify at least 5 negatives that alcohol can
have on the body.
4. QUIZ TODAY!!!!!
5. Homework- Bring in a newspaper clipping or
magazine article where someone made a
decision that proved to be costly.
9-23-14
1. Get out your Bellwork and your notes.
2. Bellwork question:
3. As you BAC increases, how does your
physical and mental state decrease?
4. Article homework due today!!!!
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Fetal alcohol syndrome
Alcoholism
Recovery
Detoxification
Sobriety
• Newspaper Activity
• Alcohol makes it more difficult to think clearly
about choices
• It affects your memory ( Forget what you did or
said)
• Harms your coordination
• Slows Reactions
• Changes the way you see situations
• Low risk situations may become high risk ones
• It AFFECTS your ABILITY to MAKE GOOD
DECISIONS
• Nearly 14 million adult Americans have
physical, social, and psychological problems
related to alcohol use.
• It causes premature death from a variety of
diseases.
• It also contributes to unnecessary deaths
and injuries on the roads and in the home.
• Studies have shown that the average age for
first trying alcohol is 11 for boys and 13 for
girls.
• Why do some young people try alcohol at
such an early age?
• How is drinking at an early age affecting their
chances of developing alcohol dependence?
• Intoxication can easily lead to dangerous
decisions and behaviors ( example: leading to
sexual behaviors)
• It can affect feelings (become happy and silly;
sad and angry, or violent)
• Make you forget your values
• You have made plans to go fishing with a
friend. When you get to the lake, you find
your friend waiting by his family’s boat. He
immediately tells you that you will have to do
the rowing because he has a “buzz” from
drinking. You have never been on a row boat
before. What do you do?
• Write a skit in which a teen tries to act cool
by drinking and behaving in a manner that
causes peers to reject him or her.
• Identify traits of a good friend.
• Drinking and driving are dangerous, potentially
deadly.
• Alcohol impairs- vision, reaction time, and
coordination.
• If you drink, never get behind the wheel.
• It can cause other kinds of intentional injuries as wellriding a bike, skateboard, or scooter
• 1/3 of bicyclists and pedestrians who die in motor
vehicle collisions have been drinking
• Alcohol is linked to about 1/3 of drowning
• ½ of all deaths by fire
• Alcohol and violence often go hand in hand
because it reduces the user’s self-control.
• Drinking is NEVER and EXCUSE for violence
• It does not cause violence, but it does make
it more likely
• It makes emotions and behaviors seem
stronger
• Some people become upset or easily angered
when drinking
• Some people are rude or want to argue
• Insults, careless threats, arguments, and fights are more
likely
• Someone drinking may become a victim of violence.
• Alcohol inhibits your ability to defend yourself
• Alcohol reduces your alertness to danger signs or risky
behaviors
• Intoxicated people are easy targets for- rape, assault,
battery, or robbery.
• The U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
shows that alcohol use is implicated in one to
2/3 of sexual assault and acquaintance or
“date” rape cases among teens and college
students.
• Mica and Leah have been best friends for
years. Recently, Leah confided that her father
was out of work and spent most of his time
drinking. She also told Mica that after a few
beers, her father became angry and violent.
Leah said the situation was so bad that she
was considering running away from home.
What can you do to help her?
• Alcohol poses a special risk for a fetus.
• A fetus has its own blood supply.
• When a pregnant mother drinks alcohol, all the
alcohol is then passed into the fetus’s blood.
• Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)- is a group of birth
defects that can happen when a pregnant
woman drinks alcohol.
• The child’s birth defects range from mild to
severe
• Severe effects may include brain damage,
mental retardation, and severe emotional
problems.
• Children may struggle with learning, memory,
attention, problem solving, and interacting
with other people.
• There is no known safe level of drinking
during pregnancy.
• Not drinking totally prevents FAS.
• What happens to the alcohol that a pregnant
woman drinks? What is FAS? What are some
birth effects associated with FAS? Can FAS be
prevented? How?
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Alcoholism
Recovery
Sobriety
Detoxification
• Alcoholism is a progressive chronic disease
involving a mental and physical need for alcohol. It
is an illness
• People have a strong need to drink, inability to
stop drinking, increased tolerance, or physical
dependence for alcohol.
• People with this disease are called alcoholics
• With a physical addiction the body develops a
direct need for the drug
• Alcoholics cannot control their drinking
• They drink even though they know they are
harming themselves and others
• There is a psychological dependence where
the mind sends a message that it needs
more and more alcohol.
• It may be hereditary
• Family environment and friends have a
stronger influence on your health
• Stage One- Use alcohol to relieve stress or relax.
Soon they need it to cope with daily life. They
begin to lie or make excuses about drinking.
• Stage Two-Person develops tolerance for
alcohol, and become absent from work or
school. They deny there is a problem.
• Stage Three- Problem is clear to other people.
Drinker is strongly addicted and out of control.
• There is no cure for alcoholism, but it is treatable
• Not drinking at all is the best treatment
• When a person stops drinking they may experience
withdrawals- headaches, nervousness, shaking, or
seizures
• Many people with alcoholism do recover by seeking
treatment.
• Recovery is learning to live without alcohol.
• Recovery is possible with medication and support
from other people
There are steps to recovery:
•Admission
•Detoxification- the alcoholic’s body adjusts to
functioning without alcohol
•Counseling
•Recovery
• Treatment may require medical help and counseling
• Groups, such as AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) provide
help and support for the person with alcoholism
• Sobriety is living without alcohol and it is a lifelong
struggle
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What is physical dependence on a drug?
What happens when a person with alcoholism stops drinking?
How is physical dependence related to withdrawal?
Who do you think would be most likely to recognize these stages
of developing alcoholism: the alcoholic, family member, friend, or
acquaintance.
• Why?
• Who could intervene the most successfully?
• Why?
• One in four families are affected by alcoholism
• Alcohol abuse is a factor for breakup in many
families
• Many cases spousal and child abuse are involved
• A growing number of teens live with someone
who is addicted to alcohol
• The first step is to admit that the problem exists
• Next, reach out for help
• There are treatment centers that offer help to
family members and the alcoholic
– Al-Anon-helps family members and friends of
alcoholics. Learn how to help themselves and
the person dependent on alcohol
– Alateen- helps young people cope with having a
family member who is an alcoholic. People
share their experience and work together to
improve their lives.
• The most important responsibility is to yourself
• If you are close to an alcoholic, try not to let their
drinking problem change your own attitudes and
behaviors
• How to help an alcoholic:
•When the drinker is sober, talk calmly with him
or her about the harm that alcohol does
•Tell the drinker how concerned you are, and
encourage her or him to seek help. Let the person
know that the drinking worries you
•Help the drinker feel good about quitting, and
provide information about groups that can help
• Summarize the dangers of alcohol use and
the harmful effects of alcoholism.
• Some companies spend a lot of money to
advertise beer on television, knowing that it
has serious health risks. Should a law be
passed banning beer advertising from
television?
• Society provides pressure to drink
• Peer pressure may be the strongest of all
• Another pressure may be from advertisements for
alcohol
• The media portrays alcohol as a normal part of life
• The display that drinking is fun
• They don’t display sick, unhappy, injured, or lonely
drinkers
• Teens hope drinking displays them looking like adults
or the only way to have a good time
• Messages make knowing what you want more
difficult
• Knowing what you want makes it a lot easier If
you take time to think about it
• Remember, no matte what ads tell you, most
adults and teens do not drink or drink rarely
• Knowing what is best for you helps you make
smart choices
Ask yourself the following questions:
•What makes me happy?
•What do you do to feel good or to feel adult and in
charge?
•How can drinking hurt you or get you in trouble?
•What pressure to drink do you feel?
•How can you avoid or stop those pressures?
• If you already decided to NOT drink or NOT DRINK AGAIN,
GREAT!
• These questions and answers help you focus on the important
things in your life so that you make good decisions
• Students in groups, will analyze ads to
determine how the manufacturer tries to
convince the reader to buy the product.
• Alternatives
• Hobby
•You won’t look mature getting in trouble for
illegal underage drinking
•The problems will still be there when the
effects of alcohol wear off
•Alcohol does not relieve stress, it disrupts
sleep and may create more
•Real friends won’t pressure you to do
something harmful
•Alcohol companies want people to spend
money on their products
•It is illegal
•It interferes with your activities
• It interferes with school
•It promotes foolish behaviors
•It is not smart
•It disappoints those who care about you
•It harms your health
• Each student gets a blank slip of paper. Vote
on whether you have received pressure to try
alcohol (pressure or no pressure)
Alternatives are other ways of thinking and acting.
•Become good at something that requires a steady
hand
•Join other teens for alcohol free-fun
•Volunteer to help others
•Learn something new
•Advocate
•Join a sports team
•Find a hobby- something you like to do or study
in your spare time
• Alcohol is not a solution to problems. Name
other behaviors that people mistakenly
believe are solutions to problems. Suggest
actions and behaviors that can help a person
with a problem.
• Friends are a good source to help people
struggling with alcohol. They are usually
people who you trust, talk to, and have a
good time with.
• REAL FRIENDS will not pressure you to drink
• Pick your friends carefully
• Talk to someone you trust
• Major problems may require more than just your friends, but
there is HELP around you
People to Talk To:
• Teachers
• Coaches
• Guidance Counselors
• Parents
• Relative
• Another trusted adult
• Religious or spiritual leader- mental/ emotional problems
• School nurse- physical problems
• Family doctor-physical problems
• DON’T WAIT
• Be a good listener
• Don’t judge them
• Ask if the problem is to difficult for them to
handle
• Help them find someone who can help
• If you don’t know where to turn, ask a
trusted adult for suggestions.
• Create a skit in which a teen tells a good
friend that he thinks he has a drinking
problem.
• Write a letter to 6th grade students
explaining how he or she can resist peer
pressure and make healthy decisions.