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Alcohol has a long history of use - Answers • Alcohol use dates back to ancient Egypt and

Babylonia (8000BCE)

• The American temperance movement began in the

1830s

• Prohibition (18th Amendment) took effect in 1920

▪ Illegal production often produced toxic forms;

spawned organized crime mobs; repealed in 1933 (methanol)

Alcohol and ethanol - Answers ▪ Second most-commonly used psychoactive drug

in modern society

Ethanol:

produced by

fermentation of

sugars by

yeasts;

produces

alcohol and

CO2

-most misued

Psychopharmacology of Alcohol - Answers The pharmacokinetics of alcohol determines its

bioavailability

• Ethanol is a small molecule that can't be ionized;

mixes readily with water; not very lipid soluble

• Easily absorbed from the GI tract; distributed

throughout the body, entering most tissues,

, including the brain (small intensitine, placental and blood brain barrier cross)

• Behavioral effects are described according to blood

alcohol concentration (BAC) rather than amount

ingested-how much is bioavaliable

• In general take a BAC of - Answers 0.02% (20mg EtOH/100ml

blood) to produce behavioral effects

Alcohol Dosage - Answers "dose" in beverages typically given in proof, which is

double the actual volumetric percentage in beverage

College Students Pour a 'Nice' (i.e., Large) Drink! - Answers give people different volume of cups, 6 10 12
oz ask them to pour a shot students pour more on average as size of cup increases

-size of cup increases amount poured in cup increases (framing effect)

Legal limits for driving - Answers • large range across nations

▪ 0.0% − 0.08%

• United States:

▪ October 2000: legislation stating all states must

pass 0.08% legal limit or face loss of federal

highway funds

▪ all 50 states compliant by 2003

❑ Michigan "sunset clause": 0.10% in

2013/2018/2021...???

▪ all also have zero tolerance laws for drivers under

age of 21

❑ actual limit range 0.0 − 0.02%

▪ enhanced penalty laws in 42ish states

❑ levels ranging > 0.15 − 0.2%

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