Transcript Alcohol`s Effects on the Mind and Body

Alcohol’s Effects on the Mind
and Body
8th grade
Lesson 2
Pages D12-D17
Alcohol
A drug found in some beverages that
slows down the central nervous system
and harms body organs.
Alcohol’s Path
Alcohol goes into bloodstream
Body converts it into acetaldehyde
Most people change acetaldehyde into
carbon dioxide and water and eliminate
it from body
In other people, trace amounts of
alcohol remain in body and it turns to
THIQ in brain
Alcohol’s Path
Alcohol follows a
path through your
digestive system
into your other
organs.
Label the diagram
with the appropriate
organs that are
effected.
Blood Alcohol Concentration
(BAC)
The amount of alcohol in a person’s
blood, given as a percentage
As BAC goes
goes
, alcohol’s effect
Legal Intoxication is .08% for people 21
Zero tolerance for people < 21
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Factors that affect BAC
How much a person has to drink
How Fast a person drinks
How much a person weighs
How much a person has eaten
Male or Female
How a person feels
Short and Long-term Effects
Short-Term Effects


Body Senses
Reaction time and
coordination

Stomach
Long-Term Effects
 Immune System
 Cancer
 Pancreas
 Liver
 Heart and blood vessels
 Brain and nervous
system
 Reproductive system
Gastric ADH in the Stomach
An enzyme that begins to break alcohol
down in the stomach
Alcohol then passes into the small
intestine where it is absorbed into the
blood stream.
Females have less ADH
Onto the LIVER!
Alcohol is then transported to the liver
Here alcohol oxidation takes place and converts
alcohol into 2 waste products:
carbon dioxide and water
Cirrhosis of the Liver
Long
Term
Alcohol
Use!
Liver
filters
poisons
from
blood!
Scar tissue replaces normal, healthy tissue blocking the
flow of blood through the organ and preventing it from
working as it should.