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Chapter 15 – Alcohol 8th Grade Notes Lesson 1 Alcohol - Central Nervous System (CNS) Oldest substances made and drunk by humans Wine: grapes and other fruits Beer: grains, barley and wheat Beverage alcohol, aka ethanol, is only one type of alcohol. NEVER DRINK METHANOL or other non-beverage alcohols b/c they can cause blindness and death. - Consists of brain and spinal cord. What alcohol mostly effects. - Controls speech, thinking, memory, judgment, and learning. Emotions, breathing, senses, and movement. Depressant - Drug that slows body functioning Alcohol and Your Brain - Amount of alcohol in blood increases, your thinking, memory are impaired. Can’t tell safe from dangerous. Sleep, coma, and death can occur. Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) - Amount of alcohol in the bloodstream. Also known as blood alcohol level. At .08 or higher, legally intoxicated. Factors affecting Individual Reactions - How much and how fast a person drinks, weight, food in stomach, genetics, tolerance, gender Intoxication - Physical and mental changes produced by drinking alcohol Alcohol Poisoning - Damage to physical health caused by drinking too much alcohol Hangover - Uncomfortable physical effects caused by alcohol use, including headache, dizziness, stomach upset, nausea, and vomiting. Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Cirrhosis - Deadly disease that replaces healthy liver tissue with useless scar tissue Tolerance - Condition in which a person needs more of a drug to feel the original effects of the drug Alcohol Abuse - Inability to drink in moderation or at appropriate times Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Groups of birth defects that affect an unborn baby that has been exposed to alcohol. Could include mental retardation, organ abnormalities, learning and behavioral problems. - Mental or psychological process that restrains your actions, emotions, and thoughts - Amount of time from the instant your brain detects an external stimuli until the moment you respond Alcoholism - Disease in which a person is physically and psychologically dependent on alcohol Physical Dependence - Body’s chemical need for a drug Psychological Dependence - Person’s emotional or mental need for a drug Recovery - Learning to live without alcohol Lesson 4 Inhibition Lesson 5 Reaction TIme Lesson 8