This document discusses the history, effects, and classifications of alcohol. It notes that alcohol has been used since the Stone Age for religious purposes and nutrients. It is absorbed through the mouth and small intestine and can affect various body systems. Long term heavy use can lead to cancers, liver disease, and alcoholism. It also notes street names for alcohol and discusses both positive and negative health effects of alcohol consumption in different amounts.

1. alcohol

2. History of:
• Alcohol was widely used for religious
purposes. There were also times it was used
for providing nutrients. It has also been known
to be used for medicinal, antiseptic, and as a
analgesic. Alcohol has been around since the
stone age!

3. How is alcohol administrated into the
body?
• Through the mouth. We drink alcohol. There is
also ways it can enter if you use rubbing
alcohol for a cut but it is not a substantial
amount at that point. From the mouth, it is
absorbed from the small intestine (80%, other
20% is in the stomach). It circulates your body
until it is filtered out.

4. Street names?
• Booze
• Cold one
• Brew
• Hard Stuff
• Hooch
• Shine

5. Classifications
• This drug is considered a depressant as it
slows down the bodies functions and your
thinking.
• Alcohol is a level 2 drug.

6. chemicals
• Ethanol
• Esther
• Ester
• Methynol

7. Physical, mental, social dangers
• Alcohol lowers your judgement, and your
bodies abilities. If you only drink occasionally,
you more than likely aren’t going to hurt
yourself. Long time usage can lead to mouth
and throat cancer, liver problems, alcoholism,
and much more.
• Alcoholism effects your mental health as well.
You may not enjoy things the way you did
because alcohol isn’t included in the activity.

8. cont.
• If you are an alcoholic, people will not want to
be around you if you are drunk constantly. You
might cause problems in your family as well.
• Legal problems are varied. If you drink and
drive there will more than likely be legal
consequences. Drinking is legal though.

9. Nervous system
• Alcohol affects memory, judgement, and
reasoning, and in severe cases, blackouts.
• In very severe cases, dementia is also a
problem.
• Alcohol is a depressant. It slows down
functions and is also very closely linked with
depression and suicide.

10. cardiovascular
• Funny thing is, in very small amounts, alcohol
is known to help reduce heart disease. 1 ½ -2
½ glasses helps prevent blood clots.
• Long term over usage leads to arrhythmia,
myocarditis, increase in cholesterol and
hypertension.

11. digestive
• There is the chance of mouth and throat
cancer, which if linked with cigarettes is
greatly increased chance.
• Ulcers are also very common, which can cause
bleeding.
• Pancreatis associated with binge drinking

12. Respitory
• Drinkers may often puke, and if they are
passed out, they could inhale and choke on
their own vomit.
• They are also known to have many upper
respitory problems such as pneumonia.

13. Medical uses
• Rubbing alcohol is used to clean cuts.
• Alcohol is used to help prevent heart disease,
strokes, diabetes, arthritis, enlarged prostate,
dementia, and several cancers, in small
dosages.

14. Alcohol+other drugs=?
• Alcohol plus another depressant, can be very
threatening to ones health, and can very
easily be fatal as two drugs work together and
slow down the body quickly.

15. work cited
• http://www2.potsdam.edu/alcohol/Controversies/1114796842.html#.U77
PBPldW2U
• http://casapalmera.com/alcohol-street-names-and-nicknames/
• https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091128134954AAoIe8
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• http://publichealth.hsc.wvu.edu/alcohol/Effects-on-the-Body/Long-Term-
Effects/Central-Nervous-System
• http://publichealth.hsc.wvu.edu/alcohol/Effects-on-the-Body/Long-Term-
Effects/Cardiovascular-System
• http://publichealth.hsc.wvu.edu/alcohol/Effects-on-the-Body/Long-Term-
Effects/Respiratory-System
• http://publichealth.hsc.wvu.edu/alcohol/Effects-on-the-Body/Long-Term-
Effects/Digestive-System
• http://publichealth.hsc.wvu.edu/alcohol/Effects-on-the-Body/Long-Term-
Effects/Cardiovascular-System

16. GAME TIME: Lets Make a wager!
• First, you are going to start off with $100
(metaphorical)
• With each question (there is going to be 5)
you bet an amount based off how much
money you have. If you get the question right,
add how much you wagered, if you lost,
subtract the wager you made. (The highest
you can have is $6400)

17. MAKE A WAGER
QUESTION 1:
How long has alcohol been around for?
Since the stone age!

18. Question 2:
• Does alcohol have any positive effects?
Yes! It lowers the chance of heart disease, stroke, arthritis and several major cancers
by a glass or so per day!

19. Question 3
• What was some purposes alcohol was used for
in the past? (If you name one or the other, you
get the question right)
For religious purposes and for nutrients alcohol provided.

20. Question 4
• Name 1 of the chemicals found in alcohol ( no bonuses
for getting all 4)
Ethanol, Esther, Ester, Mythanyol

21. Question 5
• Name 3 out of the 6 street names I listed in
the powerpoint
Booze, cold one, brew, hard stuff, hooch, shine

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• 101-1600
• 1601-6400