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?