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Alcohol and TeensHealth
Jacqueline
Birthday Party as a child
Party with friends
Drinking and driving accident
The accident
After the accident
Now 20 years old, he cannot forgive himself for driving drunk on that night three years ago.
Like Scary statistics?
Every 22 minutes someone dies in an alcohol-related motor vehicle accident.
On any given weekend evening, one in 10 drivers on America’s roads has been drinking.
Why do people drink alcohol
To escape problems.Does that fix the problem?Peer pressure
Poison
Alcohol is a poison. Which alcohol source has more alcohol in it:
12oz beer, 6oz wine, 2 oz shot of liquor? How many beers can an adults body absorb
in one hour? What organ is your human washing
machine responsible for cleaning the blood?
What do you do with a person who is getting sick from alcohol?
Did you know
Alcohol is a drug. It alters your mind, body and emotions. It is also our nation's largest youth drug problem, killing 6.5 times as many young people as all illicit drugs combined.
What is your CNS system? How is the CNS affected by alcohol? How is that dangerous?
What factors effect how intoxicated a person gets???
Weight Whether there is food in their
stomach Gender How fast you drink How much Tolerance Medication
Statistics Alcohol is a leading cause of
death among youth, particularly teenagers. It contributes substantially to adolescent motor vehicle crashes, other traumatic injuries, suicide, date rape, and family and school problems.1
Statistics Every day, on average, 11,318
American youth (12 to 20 years of age) try alcohol for the first time
Alcohol is by far the most used and abused drug among America’s teenagers.
Half of all teens that drink have binged.
What is binge drinking?
Alcohol / Academics
Children who are drinking alcohol by 7th grade are more likely to report academic problems, substance use, and delinquent behavior in both middle school and high school. By young adulthood, early alcohol use was associated with employment problems, other substance abuse, and criminal and other violent behavior.4
Alcoholism
Young people who begin drinking before age 15 are four times more likely to develop alcoholism than those who begin drinking at 21.5
What is an alcoholic? T or F once a person is an alcoholic
they will be one for the rest of their life?
Drinking and driving
More than 1,700 college students in the U.S. are killed each year—about 4.65 a day—as a result of alcohol-related injuries.
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Do you know somebody like Danny? How would it affect you if a friend f
your died in an alcohol related accident?