After 4 drinks in 2 hours, movements become clumsy and speech slurred, while after 7 drinks the traffic accident risk increases 100 times. At 9 drinks vision blurs and thinking becomes confused, and 12 drinks renders a person incapable of voluntary action and their consciousness resembles surgical anesthesia. Fifteen or more drinks can compromise breathing and heartbeat, potentially causing death. While alcohol may initially reduce stress, just a few more drinks can induce depression, aggression, and loss of control.

1. Effects of Alcohol on
Consciousness

2. Just a few drinks to loosen up, doncha
know?

3. After only four drinks consumed in a
two hour period and movements
become clumsy, speech is slurred.

4. After seven drinks in a two hour
period, there is a 100x greater traffic
risk.

5. • At nine drinks vision is blurred and mental
processes such as understanding become
confused.

6. • At twelve drinks of alcohol, whether it is beer,
wine or hard liquor, a person is incapable of
voluntary action and the state of
consciousness is akin to being under surgical
anesthesia.

7. After 15 drinks of alcohol breathing
and heartbeat are compromised and
death is a very real possibility.

8. Although we may feel more sociable
initially ,with the release of stress and
tension, just a few more drinks and we
become depressed, aggressive and out
of control.

9. Despite the carefree feeling we get
when we drink, alcohol is a
depressant.

10. • Psychsmart 2011, McGraw Hill Companies,
Inc.