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Ground Rules

• Only one person speaks at a time• Avoid personal comments• Only share what you are happy to share

—pass if you wish• Listen to whoever is speaking• Respect other people’s opinions• Contribute positively to the session,

using • appropriate and acceptable language• Do ask for more information, though

avoid personal questions

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Learning Objectives

• Have a better understanding of the effects of alcohol –The truth is that alcohol affects different people in different ways. But one thing is sure. Alcohol is very dangerous for a young person like youYour age, your weight, your height, and your gender will all affect how you react to alcohol. For young people whose bodies are still developing, the effects of even a little alcohol can be worse than they are for older people.

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Learning Objectives

• To understand the risks relating to excessive alcohol -As a person drinks more alcohol, the ability to make decisions is affected. By drinking more and more alcohol, a person may lose balance and be unable to see or speak clearly. The more a person drinks, the worse the effects can be.Alcohol can have lasting effects on the brain, impairing how a person learns, thinks, and remembers.

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Learning Objectives

• Explore attitudes to drinking alcohol -Alcohol plays a major role part in contemporary British society and cultureThe ‘British’, it was fairly universally agreed, have a tendency to drink in order to get drunk, rather than for enjoyment of, for example, the taste

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Learning Objectives

• Raise awareness of the law relating to drinking alcohol –

• It is illegal to give an alcoholic drink to a child under five

• Young people aged 16 or 17 can drink beer, wine or cider with a meal

• It is against the law for anyone under 18 to buy alcohol in a pub, off-licence, supermarket, or for anyone to buy alcohol for someone under 18 to consume in a pub or a public place.

• Some towns and cities have local by-laws banning drinking alcohol in public

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1. Why do people drink alcohol?

A.To give them confidenceB.To help them relaxC.To make them happyD.To get drunk

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Answer: All of these

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2.Which drug kills more people in the UK?

A. AlcoholB. HeroinC. CannabisD. Ecstasy

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Answer: Alcohol - A•Alcohol kills more people in the

UK than all the other illegal drugs put together.

•4144 deaths in 1991 increased to 8724 deaths in 2007.

(5732 men – 2992 women)•NOTE Smoking related deaths

approximately 114,000 in UK each year

(Office of National Statistics)

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3. Drinking alcohol makes people violent?

A. True

B. False

C. Depends

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Answer: Depends - CThe Alcohol

•Strength of the alcohol

•How much

•Are there any other drugs in the system

The Individual

•The Gender

•Size

•Tolerance level

•Health

The Situation

•The atmosphere

•Expectations

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4. Drinking spirits is more dangerous than drinking lager or beer?A. True

B. False

C. Depends

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Answer: Depends - C

•Depends on how much is drunk and the strength of what is drunk.

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5. Alcohol affects women more than men?

A. True

B. False

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Answer: True - A

Women are generally smaller than men

•Women have more fat and less water in their bodies than men.

• Therefore alcohol is more concentrated in women’s bodies.

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6. If a person drank 6 pints of normal strength lager/beer in fairly rapid succession, approximately how many hours would it take to clear all the alcohol from the body?A.Six HoursB.Nine HoursC.Eleven HoursD.Twelve Hours

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Answer: 12 hours - D

•It takes the body approximately one hour to break down one unit of alcohol

•One pint of lager contains 2 units of alcohol

•2 units x 6 pints = 12 units•One unit per hour = 12 hours

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What is a unit?

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7. What is the first function of the brain to be affected by alcohol use?

A.SpeechB.Inhibitions/BehaviourC.BalanceD.Vision

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Answer: Inhibitions/Behaviour - B• Alcohol being a

depressant drug is gradually shutting down your brain and stopping it from working properly

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8. Black coffee or a cold shower will sober you up?

A.True

B. False

C. Depends

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Answer: False - B

•Only time will sober you up.

•It is the liver that breaks down the alcohol when we drink it

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9. How many teenagers are admitted to hospital every year with acute alcohol poisoning?

A. 500B. 800C. 1000D. 300

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Answer: 1000 - C

•Of those 1000 teenagers 20 of them will be between the ages of 9 – 15.

•This is extremely dangerous as young people can experience coma and breathing difficulties at a lower level than adults.

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AND FINALLY………….. Most people drink in sensible amounts

BUT…………… However, when people drink too much, it may lead to many different problems