spring 2010 alcohol illiana amanda

Alcohol

By: Iliana F. & Amanda E.

Alcohol’s street names

• Booze chela• Brew pistiadora• Liquor la fria• Juice jugo mexicano• Cold one gringa• Hard stuff • brewsky

General Information

• Alcohol is made from grapes, grains, and berries that are fermented & distilled into a liquid.

• Alcohol is made world wide.

• Alcohol is used by drinking it.

Alcohol’s effects

• When you drink too much you get drunk.

• When you are drunk you are dizzy , aggressive, or are not even aware of your actions.

• You put you and everybody else around you in danger.

• Short- term can effect intoxication

• Long- term alcohol dependence

Alcohol’s harmful effects• You could get into an accident.• Get into a fight and injure yourself or another

person.• You could end up having sex which could

result to unplanned pregnancies.• You can get a hangover which may include

headaches, nausea, and you to vomit.• You can get alcohol poisoning and you can

get cancer of the mouth and throat or if too much is consumed it may even result to death.

How many Alcohol users are there in America?

• There are about an average of 17.6 million alcohol users in America alone!

• 85 percent of college students drink

Alcohol accidents

• January 14, 2010 in Raleigh North Carolina Sadiki Ayize Young died when he and his 2 other friends went to a party and got drunk and had a direct hit with another car

Work Cited

• http://www.alcohol101plus.org/downloads/CollegeStudents.pdf

• www.wral.com/news/local/story/1136452/ -

• http://www.med.unsw.edu.au/NDARCWeb.nsf/resources/NDARCFact_Drugs5/$file/HARMFUL+EFFECTS+ALCOHOL.pdf