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| Over ____ kids under age ___ have their first full drink of alcohol every day in the U.S. in 2004 |
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| What is The average age at which young people, ages 12 to 17, begin to drink? |
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| Underage drinking is estimated to account for ____ - ____% of U.S. alcohol market |
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| What makes up about half the price of an alcoholic beverage? |
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| federal and state taxes and licensing fees |
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| What is the social cost of alcohol use by youth? |
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| Homicide is the____ leading cause of death for 15 to 24 year olds. |
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| What are the four phases of the prevention model? |
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| experimental, cognitive/affective and skill building |
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| About __% of all traffic crash fatalities are linked to alcohol use |
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| Americans who began drinking before age of 15 are ____times more likely to develop alcohol dependence than those who wait until the age of 21. |
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| Alcohol use during adolescence plays a substantial role in all three major leading causes of death among youth – ____, ______, and _____ |
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| unintentional injuries, suicides and homicides. |
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| ___% of teens have had unprotected sex because they were drinking or using drugs |
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| a complete ban on alcohol advertising could reduce monthly levels of youth drinking by ___% and binge drinking by ___% |
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| What is the natural strength of alcohol? |
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| Who discovered the distillation process and when? |
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| What is the name of the usage of alcohol to cure disease? |
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| the production of alcohol from sugars through the action of yeasts |
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| What is needed to begin fermentation? |
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evaporation and condensing of alcohol vapors to produce beverages with alcohol content higher than 15 percent |
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| Define proof in relation to alcohol |
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| alcohol content of a distilled beverage; twice the percentage of alcohol by weight |
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| Alcohol causes ___in ___worldwide deaths. |
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| What is the area of the brain first effected by alcohol? Last? |
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| frontal lobe (memory); vital centers |
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| What neurons does alcohol affect? |
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| dopamine, serotonin, and acetylcholine neurons |
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| At high doses, alcohol blocks the effects of the excitatory transmitter _____ |
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| Alcohol was Used as anesthetic until the late ___century |
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| Where in the digestive tract is most alcohol absorbed? |
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| What slows the absorption of alcohol? |
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| Having food or water in the stomach |
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| The presence of what increases the absorption of alcohol? |
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| Why would a lean person have a lower BAC than a fatty person of the same weight? |
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| Because Alcohol is less distributed in fatty tissues |
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| What is the alcohol metabolization rate of the liver? |
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| What percent of alcohol is metabolized in the liver? |
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| What is an unusual effect of chronic alcohol abuse? |
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| Vitamin B1 (thiamine) deficiency, Korsakoff Psychosis (dementia) |
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| What about alcohols abuse causes brain damage? |
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| high level of acetaldehyde. |
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| Describe the first stage of Alcoholism & Alcohol Dependency |
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| tremors, rapid HR, HBP, heavy sweating, loss of appetite, & insomnia |
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| Describe the second stage of Alcoholism & Alcohol Dependency |
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| Describe the third stage of Alcoholism & Alcohol Dependency |
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| delusions, disorientation, delirium, followed by amnesia |
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| Describe the fourth stage of Alcoholism & Alcohol Dependency |
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| Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders |
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| Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; Abnormal facial features; Growth & CNS problem |
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| Alcohol-Related Birth Defects; Problems with heart, kidneys, bones and/or hearing; attention deficits, language difficulties, learning disabilities, poor judgment |
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| Alcohol-Related Neurodevelopmental disorder; Behavioral and/or cognitive abnormalities |
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| FAS ranges from ___ to ___ per 1,000 live births |
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| Weighted % of pregnant women aged 18-44 who reported alcohol consumption was ___% and about ___% were binge drinkers in 2001 |
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| What are the 4 levels of alcohol depenance? |
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| detoxification; outpatient; inpatien; aftercare/relapse prevention |
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| What is the avg length of the detox process? |
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| What 2 drugs are used in the medical intervention area of alcoholism? |
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| Naltrexone (Trexan and ReVia) and Disulfiram |
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| What are the 3 types of therapy involved in non-medical interventions? |
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| Motivational enhancement therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, nutritive therapy |
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| What is the name of the hangover pill? |
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| Classification of drugs that excite the CNS |
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| What are seven examples of stimulants? |
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Caffeine
Ephedrine
Ritalin
Amphetamine
Methamphetamine
Cocaine
Nicotine |
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| Hitler's behavior was traced to the use of what type of drug? |
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| Amphetamines are currently used in the treatment of what 3 conditions? |
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| narcolepsy, hyperkinetic behavior, & weight reduction |
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| Stimulates the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system |
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| What was the purpose of using amphetamines in WWII? |
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| To keep soldiers awake and alert |
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| Amphetamines have very similar chemical structure as _______ & ________ |
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| What is blowfish made of? |
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| 1,000 milligrams of aspirin and 120 milligrams of caffeine, and other ingredients |
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| how many tons of meth were found in the Mexico Meth Bust? |
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| What was one of the chemicals used to make meth? |
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| What schedule are amphetamines a part of? |
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| What was the original purpose of amphetamines? |
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| to keep soldiers and astronauts awake and alert |
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| What condition did amphetamines cause in women? Describe it |
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| House Wife Syndrome; It would control their appetite but they had to drink or take sleeping pills at night to get rest |
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| What 2 things combine to make a speedball? |
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| What are the 6 different names for meth? |
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| crank, meth, chalk, crystal, ice, glass |
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| The powder version of meth is called ____ |
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| What are the 4 most common ways of using meth? |
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| smoke, IV injection, snorted, injested |
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| The overusage of what drug leads to symptoms resembling Parkinson's disease? |
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| Meth damages brain cells that contain what 2 chemicals? |
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| What are 4 short term affects of meth? |
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| insomnia; anxiety; euphoria; hyperthermia |
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| What are the withdrawl symptoms of a meth user? |
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| sleepiness, hunger depressed moods drug craving |
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