Table of Contents

1. Table of Contents Fat Boy Chronicles Steroids Guided Notes Venn Diagram Male/Female picture Steroids Crossword 30 for 30: Marion Jones What do you know about alcohol Death of an Innocent Poem Drinking Wheel Activity What do you know about alcohol part 2 The Party Never Stops Binge Drinking Facts Pregnancy Diagram Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

2. Binge Drinking Define Binge Drinking Explore who engages in binge drinking Discuss risks associated with binge drinking Review what to do for alcohol poisoning Create strategies to avoid binge drinking

3. What is binge drinking? • Binge drinking is a common pattern of excessive alcohol use in the United States. • The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism defines binge drinking as a pattern of drinking that brings a person’s blood alcohol concentration (BAC) to 0.08 grams percent or above. • This typically happens when men consume 5 or more drinks, and when women consume 4 or more drinks, in about 2 hours.

4. What is a drink? • 12 oz of beer • 4oz of wine • 1 ½ oz shot of liquor

5. Who binge drinks? • Binge drinking often begins around 13, tends to increase during adolescence, peaks in young adulthood (18-22), then gradually decreases.

6. What are the risks? • People who binge drink are at much great risk for many problems

7. What is the problem? • Injury:599,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 are unintentionally injured under the influence of alcohol (Hingson et al., 2009). • Assault:696,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 are assaulted by another student who has been drinking (Hingson et al., 2009).

8. Sexual Abuse:97,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 are victims of alcohol-related sexual assault or date rape (Hingson et al., 2009). • Unsafe Sex:400,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 had unprotected sex and more than 100,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 report having been too intoxicated to know if they consented to having sex (Hingson et al., 2002).

9. Academic Problems: About 25 percent of college students report academic consequences of their drinking including missing class, falling behind, doing poorly on exams or papers, and receiving lower grades overall (Engs et al., 1996; Presley et al., 1996a, 1996b;Wechsler et al., 2002). • Health Problems/Suicide Attempts: More than 150,000 students develop an alcohol-related health problem (Hingson et al., 2002), and between 1.2 and 1.5 percent of students indicate that they tried to commit suicide within the past year due to drinking or drug use (Presley et al., 1998).

10. Drunk Driving:3,360,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 drive under the influence of alcohol (Hingson et al., 2009). • Vandalism: About 11 percent of college student drinkers report that they have damaged property while under the influence of alcohol (Wechsler et al., 2002).

11. Property Damage: More than 25 percent of administrators from schools with relatively low drinking levels and over 50 percent from schools with high drinking levels say their campuses have a "moderate" or "major" problem with alcohol-related property damage (Wechsler et al., 1995).

12. Police Involvement: About 5 percent of 4-year college students are involved with the police or campus security as a result of their drinking (Wechsler et al., 2002), and  110,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 are arrested for an alcohol-related violation such as public drunkenness or driving under the influence (Hingson et al., 2002).

13. Alcohol Abuse and Dependence:31 percent of college students met criteria for a diagnosis of alcohol abuse and 6 percent for a diagnosis of alcohol dependence in the past 12 months, according to questionnaire-based self-reports about their drinking (Knight et al., 2002). • Death:1,825 college students between the ages of 18 and 24 die from alcohol-related unintentional injuries, including motor vehicle crashes (Hingson et al., 2009).

14. Did you know? • Underage drinking can make you act and look stupid. Alcohol can make you feel more social and daring, but it actually is a depressant that slows down parts of your brain. That’s why people who have been drinking behave in ways they never would while sober. • Underage drinking makes you accident prone. Alcohol interferes with your vision, coordination, and concentration by acting as a sedative on your central nervous system. Nearly 190,000 12-to 20-year-olds wind up in an emergency room each year for alcohol-related problems. (The majority of those who do are male.)

15. Underage drinking can harm your brain. The human brain is not fully developed until the mid-20s. Drinking alcohol, as with other drugs, can interfere with brain development. • Underage drinking kills. Every year, about 5,000 young people under age 21 die as a result from injuries caused by alcohol use. • Underage drinking may cause depression or make it worse. Young people who feel depressed are more likely to drink alcohol, but alcohol is not a cure for depression. If you are depressed, ask an adult for help.

16. Alcohol Poisoning: Critical Signs • Mental confusion, stupor, coma, or person cannot be roused. • Vomiting. • Seizures. • Slow breathing (fewer than eight breaths per minute). • Irregular breathing (10 seconds or more between breaths). • Hypothermia (low body temperature), bluish skin color, paleness.

17. Alcohol Poisoning: What should I do? • If there is any suspicion of an alcohol overdose, call 911 for help. Don't try to guess the level of drunkenness. • Know the danger signals. • Do not wait for all symptoms to be present. • Be aware that a person who has passed out may die.

18. Alcohol Poisoning: What can happen? • Victim chokes on his or her own vomit. • Breathing slows, becomes irregular, or stops. • Heart beats irregularly or stops. • Hypothermia (low body temperature). • Hypoglycemia (too little blood sugar) leads to seizures. • Untreated severe dehydration from vomiting can cause seizures, permanent brain damage, or death.