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Key Alcohol Terms / Phrases

Key Alcohol Terms / Phrases. Absorption: How fast alcohol enters a person’s blood stream from the time they consume it until it begins to effect any of their abilities.

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Key Alcohol Terms / Phrases

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  1. Key Alcohol Terms / Phrases

  2. Absorption: How fast alcohol enters a person’s blood stream from the time they consume it until it begins to effect any of their abilities. • Actual Physical Control: You can be arrested and charged with DUI even if you are asleep in your car with the motor off. If a person has the ability to move the vehicle, they are in control.

  3. Binge Drinking: Drinking large amounts of alcohol in a short period of time. This is how most teens drink. • Depressant: Any mind altering substance that puts the brain to sleep. To numb the sense. • Full Stomach / Empty Stomach: Alcohol effects all of us differently. One of the main factors is food in the stomach.

  4. Impaired: Although not “legally drunk”, a persons’ abilities are affected enough to make them an unsafe driver. • Implied Consent: Any person who operates a motor vehicles upon the public highways of the state shall be deemed to have given his consent to a chemical tests of his blood, breath, or urine to determine blood alcohol content.

  5. Oxidation: The chemical process in the liver that removes alcohol from the body at a rate of about 1 oz. per hour of a standard drink. Remember, all legal drinks contain about the same amount of alcohol.

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