Alcoholic Beverage

Name: Renee Ingram
Date: 2/13/13
School: LAMP
Facilitator: Monica McCord

4.2 Warning: Alcohol is a Dangerous Chemical
Work File Review

Note taking is important for this lesson.
Read the questions on the left side of the page very carefully and then record meaningful facts and ideas in the main larger, right-hand column. Be sure to read each stated web site very carefully. Your test will come directly from the notes. This method for taking notes is called “Cornell Note Taking.”

Questions/Main Ideas: Notes_____________________________________________

Select: What is a Drink?

1. What is the definition of a standard drink for beer, wine and distilled spirits?

2. How does the amount of alcohol in a malt liquor compare to other brewed beverages?

3. Why can’t you group all 12 ounce beers as having the same alcohol content just as you would with one 12 ounce wine cooler?

Select: Drinking and Driving

1. Analyze the promising but inadequately evaluated measures that can be used to reduce drinking and driving. Please predict the 3 that you think would be the most beneficial.

2. Identify 2 ways that you can help in the task of reducing drinking and driving.

3. Explain BAC and explain its importance in determining DUI or DWI.

A standard drink is any drink that contains about fourteen grams of pure alcohol. This would be 12 ounces of beer, 5 ounces of wine, and 1.5 ounces of distilled spirits.

Malt liquor is seven percent alcohol compared to the others it is higher than beer, but it is less that table wine and hard liquor.

Because a beer has a 5% alcohol content while a wine cooler has a 12% alcohol content.

Some inadequately suggested measures include marking the license plate to indicate ownership in the family of someone‘s license has been suspended or revoked for alcohol offenses, passing bans on open containers, imposing graded penalties on BAC at time of arrest, electronically monitoring DWI offenders, involving drivers in identifying and reporting drunken drivers, and requiring every state to provide adequate information on alcohol and driving and to test them on the driver’s exam. Three that would be most beneficial would be to have a license plate so police can tell if this person is to be driving or not, having drivers report anyone they suspect of drunk driving and requiring states to teach about alcohol and driving and then have them tested on it.

I can volunteer to be the designated driver and I can never let my friends drive drunk.
BAC is blood alcohol content an it measures how much alcohol is your system. This helps police know if your alcohol level is over what the law says it can be and whether to arrest you.

Select: Effects on the Body

1. List five (5) effects alcohol has on the body’s central nervous system.

2. Contrast a healthy liver with that of a liver affected by alcohol consumption. Include a minimum of 4 facts in your note-taking column.

3. Imagine you are a physician. A 40- year-old patient comes to you complaining about her health. During your consultation, you find out she has consumed a 12-pack of beer every night for the past 17 years. Speculate the condition of her body, making sure to include the effects of alcohol on her brain, intestines, liver and bones.

4. List at least three organs that can be affected by alcohol use.

Select: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

1. What problems may a baby have if the mother drinks while she is pregnant?

2. What is fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)?

3. A pregnant woman is at a family birthday party. Her brother brings her a drink called a white Russian (it has three different shots of liquor and milk in it). Her brother says it will be good for you –“it has milk in it”-what should she do?

4. You are at your friend’s house for dinner and your friend’s mother who is pregnant is drinking wine with dinner. You have been taking the life management class online and learned about fetal alcohol syndrome; your friend is concerned about her mother drinking while being pregnant. What could you do to help?

Select: Alcohol Dependence

1. If you were involved with alcohol as a teen, predict what four people (other than your parents) would be most affected by your use of alcohol.

It can cause coordination problems, anxiety, mood and personality changes, a shortened attention span, and depression,

The liver performs more than 500 functions. It’s main function is filtering blood in our bodied by getting rid of toxins and storing excess sugar. Excess alcohol consumption can cause the liver to become fattier thus making it vulnerable to inflammation. With the continuance of drinking the inflammation causes fibrous tissue to increase in the liver which prevents necessary blood supply from reaching the liver.

Long term drinking causes alterations in the neurons, such as reductions in the size of the brain cells. This can lead to sleep, mood, motor function, and learning and memory capabilities. Long term drinking on the heart weakens the heart muscle causing alcoholic cardiomyopathy. Not enough blood is able to nourish the organs and sometimes this shortage can cause damage to organs and tissues. It can lead to shortness of breath, fatigue, swollen legs and feet, irregular heartbeat, and even heart failure, In the liver , long term drinking can cause inflammation of the liver.

The heart can be affected as well as the liver and the pancreas.

The baby might suffer from learning disabilities, the baby may be born prematurely, the baby may have speech or language delays, behavioral problems, hearing problems, sleeping and sucking problems, and also may be born at an unhealthy weight.

It is a syndrome that can harm the baby’s development mentally and physically.

She should tell him no and walk away.

I could help my friend to approach her mom in a non-threatening way and inform her of the dangers of drinking and being pregnant.

If I were involved in alcohol as a teen the people affected would be me, my peers, my teachers, and anyone that I come into contact with if drinking and driving.