Get the Facts About Alcohol

Activity 1

How much do you really know about how alcohol can affect your brain and your body? Take this true or false quiz to find out. The answers may surprise you!

1	When a person drinks alcohol, it travels through nearly every organ system in his or her body.	True / False
2	Drinking alcohol can affect the way your brain works.	True / False
3	Alcohol affects every person in the same way.	True / False
4	Beer is less harmful to the body than other types of alcohol.	True / False
5	Heavy alcohol use over a long period of time may increase a person’s risk for getting some types of cancer.	True / False

Answers

1. True. Alcohol enters your bloodstream within 5 to 10 minutes of being consumed. It passes from your stomach into your bloodstream and then travels throughout your entire body-affecting nearly every organ system in the body.
2. True. Alcohol slows the processes in your brain that allow you to think and move. Alcohol can affect your ability to make decisions; research suggests that some of these effects may be long-lasting.
3. False. How alcohol affects a person depends on a number of factors. For example: Weight: The same amount of alcohol more strongly affects a person who weighs less than a heavier person; Youth: Because their bodies are still developing, young people are more at risk to some types of alcohol damage; Gender: The same amount of alcohol typically affects women more than it does men.
4. False. There is the same amount of alcohol in a 12-ounce beer as there is in 1.5 ounces of hard liquor. The alcohol in beer and wine can be just as harmful as the alcohol in other drinks.
5. True. Alcohol abuse can cause damage in some organs in the body that may lead to cancer, including stomach cancer.

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