02/22/2012 PSYC 2050:
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Turn on your I-clickers!
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1. Are you 21 years old
or older?
 A = Yes, B = No
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2. Anonymous:
Have you ever had an alcoholic drink?
 A = Yes, B = No
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“U.S. Drug Policy is Complex”
1851-1855 Prohibition laws in 13 states
 1868 Repealed in 9 states
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1880-1889 Prohibition laws in 7 states
 1896 Repealed in 4 states
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1907-1919 Prohibition laws in 34 states
 1917: 64% of the population in “dry territory”
 1920 National Prohibition
▪ 1933 Repeal
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“All behavior has a physiological cause”
Correlation with homicide
Correlation with domestic violence
1/3 of all suicides
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Alcohol reduces your inhibition…
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 Alcohol Myopia Theory
 Cognitive Scripts Theory
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Alcohol = cool, alcohol = sexy
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“Drugs are Drugs”
BAC = 0.05
 Lowered alertness
 Good feeling
 Release of inhibitions
 Decreased anxiety
 Impaired judgment
 Less critical thinking
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“Nothing is Safe”
Sexuality becomes less inhibited or enhanced?
Women who have been drinking = more sexual
and sexually available?
Placebo arousal
Unprotected sex
High BAC & no erection
Chronic abuse & impotence
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Black outs=
Not remembering
anything at all.
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Brown outs =
Remembering once your
friends remind you
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Upset stomach
 Alcohol is a gastric irritant
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Fatigue
 Your blood sugar has gone down
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Headache
 Accumulation of acetaldehyde
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Thirst
 Cellular dehydration
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General Malaise
/ “I’m never drinking ever again” feeling
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Blood Alcohol Concentration
 Alcohol intake
 Weight
 Sex (Male / Female)
▪ Females have higher content of body fat
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http://bloodalcoholcalculator.org/
http://www.intox.com/drinkwheel.aspx
http://www.ou.edu/oupd/bac.htm
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http://www.rupissed.com/ ***
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During the last year have you had a feeling of guilt or
remorse after drinking?
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During the last year has a friend or a family member
ever told you about things you said or did while you
were drinking that you could not remember?
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During the last year have you failed to do what was
normally expected from your because of drinking?
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Do you sometimes take a drink when you first get up
in the morning?
(C.J. Cherpitel’s “Brief Screening Instrument for Alcohol Dependence in the Emergency Room”)
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol…
We came to believe that a Power greater than
ourselves could restore us to sanity/
3. We made a decision to turn our will and our lives
over to the care of God…
4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory
of ourselves.
5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another
human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all
these defects of character.
1.
2.
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95% experience mild to moderate
withdrawal symptoms
 Can be treated on an outpatient basis
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5% experience severe withdrawal symptoms
 Should be treated in a hospital or detox facility.
▪ Detoxification
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Antabuse, Naltrexone, Campral
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If you are going to drink alcohol, pace
yourself, know your limits, know the law and
be careful.
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Please don’t drink and drive.
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If you are going to have sex, make sure it’s
consensual, and use protection.