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Main standards in focus throughout this unit include:

Alcohol Unit The Georgia High School Health Performance Standards can be found in its entirety through the following site: https://www.georgiastandards.org/Standards/Pages/BrowseStandards/HealthEd.aspx. Main standards in focus throughout this unit include:. HE HS 1:

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Main standards in focus throughout this unit include:

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  1. Alcohol UnitThe Georgia High School Health Performance Standards can be found in its entirety through the following site: https://www.georgiastandards.org/Standards/Pages/BrowseStandards/HealthEd.aspx

  2. Main standards in focus throughout this unit include: • HE HS 1: • Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health. • Example classroom topics within this standard • Personal choices related to alcohol • Diseases caused by alcohol • HE HS 2: • Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behavior. • Example classroom topics within this standard • Beliefs, values and practices passed from family to child • Media, peers, and technology influence on behaviors – advertising • cultural norms vs. reality

  3. HE HS 3: • Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information and products and services to enhance health. • Example classroom topics within this standard • Reliability and quality of product information • alcohol labels • Centers for Disease Control • HE HS 4: • Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks. • Example classroom topics within the standard • Communicate healthy choices • Brochure for effects of alcohol

  4. Items to Be Taught • - Physiological and psychological effects of alcohol • - Support groups • - Legal risks

  5. Ethanol • The type of alcohol found in beer, wine, and liquor. Active ingredient which induces • slurred speech, dizziness, and loss of coordination.

  6. Proof • Measures the percentage of alcohol in the beverage. Proof is 2X the amount of alcohol. • 100 proof= 50% alcohol • 25% alcohol= 50 proof • Average alcohol in liquor is 90 proof • Wine is 38 proof • Beer is 14 proof

  7. Alcohol is a DEPRESSANT • A depressant is a drug that slows down body functions, respiration, heart rate and general • body awareness. Depressants affect the central nervous system. Too much of a depressant • can lead to coma and even death.

  8. Legal Risks to Alcohol Use. • Under-aged drinking – fine and probation • DWI – blood alcohol level exceeds the legal limit - fine, jail time, and loss of license • Vehicular homicide - fine, loss of license, prison time

  9. Short Term Effects of Alcohol • Body’s temperature drops • Brain cells are destroyed, vision, speech and coordination are effected • Kidneys- trying to clean the blood dehydrate the body • Intoxication – all the negative effects of alcohol on the body

  10. Long Term Effect from alcohol abuse • Brain Damage, loss coordination long term memory loss, short term loss, stomach • cancer and cancer. • Cirrhosis - scarring of the liver from alcohol abuse.

  11. Inhibitions • Controls on your behavior: Try not to embarrass oneself and draw unwanted attention. • Example: It is like a scared little mouse getting drunk and saying “Now where is that darn • cat? I am going to kick his butt.”

  12. Blood Alcohol Concentration • BAC- the amount of alcohol in the blood system.

  13. Hangover • Is a term for the physical symptoms of a upset stomach, headache and sensitivity to light • and noise. Usually the body is dehydrated from excessive drinking.

  14. Detoxification • Cleaning all of the drug out of your system

  15. Intervention • A planned meeting with the alcoholic, family members, and a counselor to help the person confront his addiction.

  16. Overdose • When people take too much of a drug and can lead to coma or death.

  17. Alcohol Hepatitis • The body’s color turns yellow due to the diseases of the liver. Recovery is long, and also death may occur.

  18. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome • Pregnant women who drink alcohol put their unborn babies at risk FAS. • Babies born with FAS suffer, mental retardation, cleft palate, heart defects, and malformed faces. • Tragically, FAS is the leading preventable cause of mental retardation in America.

  19. Dependence • When the body has to have the drug to function normally. • If you are dependent on a drug and stop taking it, you will have withdrawals, a group of • symptoms you have when you stop taking the drug like shakiness, sleep problems, • irritability, rapid heartbeat, and sweating.

  20. Alcoholism • Alcoholism is when the body becomes chemically addicted to alcohol • If the body is denied the alcohol, it will suffer withdrawal symptoms. • Delirium tremens are uncontrollable shaking, nightmares, fear of • surroundings and hallucinations.

  21. Synergism • Taking two drugs that are similar and the effect is heightened or stronger.

  22. Tolerance • It takes more of the drug to have the same effect. For example, if you used to take • two Tylenol to get rid of a headache, now you need to take three because two doesn’t work • anymore.

  23. Reverse tolerance – when it takes less and less alcohol to cause intoxication. • Abstain– choosing not to do something • Refusal Skill – the ability to say no http://susan-carney.suite101.com/top-ten-refusal-skills-for-teens-a29626

  24. Are they really helping? • Codependent - People who assume the responsibility for an alcoholics needs, feelings, and happiness. • Enabler – Someone who unintentionally protects addicts from the consequences of their behavior. • Rehabilitation – The ability to cope with the everyday stress of living without alcohol.

  25. Motor-Vehicle Crashes • About one half of all fatal car crashes are caused by alcohol in some way, one third of pedestrians are struck by drunk drivers.

  26. Support Groups • Alateen – support group for teens who live with alcoholics • AA – Support group for the alcoholic • Al Anon – Support group for people who live with alcoholics

  27. Alcohol effects people around you as well • Spouses, children, and friends are affected by an alcoholic. • Wives are abused by drunks • Children are abused. • When is it going to stop?

  28. Key Terms • Alcohol Depressant Ethanol Proof • BAC Cirrhosis FAS Hangover • InhibitionsIntoxicationOverdose Tolerance • WithdrawalAlcoholism Delirium Tremens Refusal Skills • AbstainCodependent Enabler Rehabilitation • Alateen Al Anon AA Reverse Tolerance • Synergism

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