Title: The Harmful Effects of Alcohol- Assignment/Questions
Course: Alcohol Unit

Open the Harmful Effects of Alcohol Handout and answer the following questions.

1. What is alcohol?

2. In addition to drinking, alcohol can be used in other ways. Identify four (4).

3. The only kind of alcohol safe to consume is called .

4. What is fermentation?

5. Describe the effects of depressants on the body?

6. Describe three (3) reasons teens should not drink alcohol.

7. Identify tow (2) negative actions drinking alcohol has on a teen’s brain. A. B.

8. After reading “Why Some Teens Drink Alcohol,” identify five (5) facts indicating “What teens should know.” A. B. C. D. E.

9. Identify the refusal steps involved in the S.T.O.P. strategy. A. B. C. D.

10. Provide two (2) reasons teens give for refusing alcohol. A. B.

11. What are alternatives?

12. What would you do? You are at the mall with several of your friends. When it is time to leave, a friend’s brother offers to give you a ride. You think you smell alcohol on his breath. What should you do, and why?