This document discusses the harmful effects of alcohol and drugs. It notes that alcohol affects the whole body and can cause hangovers, weight gain, high blood pressure, and various diseases. It provides statistics about drunk driving deaths in Missouri. It profiles a woman who was killed by a drunk driver at age 19. The document also states that tobacco is the leading cause of death in the US and cigarettes lessen life. It shows images comparing a healthy brain to one damaged by drug abuse. Overall, it cautions about the dangers of drinking, driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, and taking various substances.

1. Alcohol and Drugs
Dimitra Boman

2. Alcohol
Alcohol which once in your system, hits your
blood stream and effects your whole body.
• What can be caused by alcohol?
– Hangovers
– Weight Gain
– High blood Pressure
– Depressed immune system
– Cancer
– Liver Disease
– Alcohol Poisoning
– Heart or Respiratory Failure

3. • In Missouri in 2010 there was reported a
total of 878 total deaths involving drunk
drivers, but only 300 of them were killed
that were drunk at the time of impact.
• Most crashes involving drunk drivers the
innocent ones are the ones killed while
the others walk away sometime without
a single scratch.

4. Nychelle Goad
• This is Nychelle Goad. She was a softball player
just like myself. She lives 15 minutes from
myself. In September of last year she was on her
way home and was struck by a drunk driver. She
was rushed to the ER where she later was
pronounced dead. She had a wonderful life
believed in the Lord and had a scholarship in
playing softball and lost all of it because of some
who chose to drink and drive. She was only 19
years old and had her whole life ahead and now
she is just a memory of someone who left this
world leaving a great impact on the ones close
to her. We never know when something like this
is going to happen or where because people
think drinking and driving is more important
than saving your life and someone else’s.

5. Drugs and More
• What is the leading • The more cigarettes you
cause of death in the smoke on a daily basis
US? lessens your life as well.
• Tobacco causes more Any kind of drug you
deaths in people than allow into your system
anything else. is slowing taking away
• Statistics say that on a life in your body. It was
four year span there only made for certain
was just a guess of 12 uses and drugs was not
million deaths. one of them.

6. Before and After of Drug Abuse
The Brain after someone had
taken drugs( Picture Below)
Picture Above is someone who got
on drugs and this is the before and
after shots.

7. • Drinking and driving have some terrible
effects and we need to do our part in not
doing them. We see the damage that they
can do and how it will effect our bodies.
Saving our life is also saving someone else's
life as well.