What does the sale of alcohol create for community? - Answer -Money and jobs, stimulates economy
What do restaurants that sell alcohol do for the community? - Answer -creates a fun place to hangout/
create memories while keeping them safe
What effects can over-drinking have on the community? - Answer -loss of health, life, and potential
increase in crime
How is excess drinking draining the US economy? - Answer -95,00 people die in the US/yr
drains the economy, due to losses in workplace productivity
binge drinking - Answer -drinking four or more beverages per sitting for women or five or more for men
per sitting in about 2 hrs
What are the main losses of excess drinking? - Answer --loss of workplace activity
-health care expenses for treating drinking problems
-law enforcement expenses
-motor vehicle crashes
What are the costs/person, total cost, and cost/drink in CA? - Answer -940, 350,106,000,000, 2.44
, What are the most common crimes related to alcohol? - Answer -DUI's
domestic violence and assaults
About how many people die a day in the US due to drunk driving? - Answer -28
one dies every 52 min
What does alcohol do to the body? - Answer -reduces the function fo the brain, impaired thinking,
reasoning, and muscle coordination (Central nervous system affected)
How is alcohol absorbed? - Answer -through the walls of the stomach and small intestine
then through the bloodstream where it accumulates until metabolized by liver
BAC - Answer -blood alcohol concentration
-measured by the weight of the alcohol in a certain volume of blood
What is the BAC limit in all 50 states? - Answer -0.08
What is the BAC limit in Utah? - Answer -0.05
How can BAC be measured? - Answer -breathalyzer or blood test
How often are there crash fatalities due to drinking? - Answer -1/3 of all traffic crashes involve drunk
drivers ( BAC higher than 0.08)
What are the consequences to drunk driving? - Answer -charges from misdemeanors to felony offenses,
penalties, licenes revocation, fines, and jail time
Is alcohol the sole cause of domestic abuse? - Answer -No only a compounding factor
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