Dont Let the Best Time of Your Life Ruin the Rest of Your Life

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Dont Let the Best Time of Your LifeRuin the
Rest of Your Life

• Kevin Stewart, M.A., N.C.C.,
• L.P.C.

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SAPE

• Parental Notification
• Possession by Consumption
• WINGS
• University Counseling Services
• Dearmont B-1 986-6191
• CHEERS

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WINGS Shuttle
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Crash Car
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What Goes First?

• Coordination?
• Judgment?

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What Is High-Risk?

• Event Risk
• Get hurt, drive, unprotected sex, poisoning
• Lifestyle Risk
• Grades, relationships
• Health Risk
• Dependence

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Negative Consequences Students Often Experienced

• Academic Failure
• Weight Gain (e-Chug cheeseburgers)
• Impaired Sleep
• Diminishes REM Sleep
• Leads to increase in Anxiety, Jumpiness,
  Irritability
• Unplanned Pregnancies
• Transmission of STDs/HIV

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Negative Consequences Students Often Experienced

• Sexual Assault
• Alcohol Related Accidents
• Finances
• Blackouts
• Hangovers
• Time Spent Intoxicated

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Alcohol-Related Academic Problems
(Due to Drinking or Drug Use)
2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 Core Survey,
Southeast Missouri State University
30,39,36
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What is Your Degree Worth?

• http//wellness.missouri.edu/Degree/

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Negative Consequences Due to Drinking
Trouble with police, fight/argument, DWI,
vandalism Suicidality, hurt/injured, trying
unsuccessfully to stop using, sexual assault
2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 Core Survey,
Southeast Missouri State University
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Driving Under the Influence
2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 200 Core Survey,
Southeast Missouri State University
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Question 1

• Alcohol is a depressant drug

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Question 2

• False Tolerance does NOT effect BAC

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Tolerance

• What is Tolerance?
• Coffee/sugar
• Initial and high tolerance
• Dont feel it until too late

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Question 3

• False

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With Drunks Dont

• Give them coffee
• Theyll just be a wide awake drunk
• Give them food
• Theyll have more to throw up on you
• Walk them around
• Theyll fall down and hurt you or themselves
• Put them in a cold shower
• Theyll just be cold, royally ticked off and hard
  to hold onto

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Question 4

• False 1 standard drink/hour
• If a man drank Th. Nights and went to sleep at
  2 am with BAC .20, would still be legally
  intoxicated (BAC .09) at 930 am next morning
• BAC would not be 0 until 4 pm that afternoon

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What is a Standard Drink?

• 12 oz. beer
• 10 oz. microbrew
• 10 oz. wine cooler
• 8 oz. malt liquor
• 8 oz. ice beer
• 8 oz. Canadian beer
• 6 oz. ice malt liquor
• 4 oz. wine
• 2 ½ oz. fortified wine (i.e. MD 20-20)
• 1.25 oz 80 proof hard alcohol
• 1 oz. 100 proof hard alcohol

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Biphasic Characteristics
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Absorption and Oxidation of Alcohol

• Factors affecting absorption
• What one is drinking
• Rate of consumption
• Effervescence
• Food in stomach
• Factors affecting oxidation
• Time!

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Question 5

• False
• Level of water in body alcohol is H20 soluble
• Stomach enzyme

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Question 6

• True
• Family history is a big risk factor
• Those with family history AND high tolerance at
  greatest risk

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One-Third of College Students Have Alcohol
Disorders (Nationally)

• 31.6 clinical criteria for abuse
• 6 clinical criteria for dependence
• 10 of
• The majority did not describe themselves as
  problems drinkers and did not believe they had a
  problem

Dependence
Alcoholism Drug Abuse Weekly, June 17, 2002
(Based on Harvard School of Public Health study
of 14,000 students at 119 4-year colleges).
Knight, J.R., Wechsler, H., Kuo, M., Seibring,
M., Weitzman, E.R., and Schuckit, M.A. Alcohol
Abuse and Dependence among U.S. College
Students. Journal of Studies on Alcohol 63(3)
263-271.
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Be Responsible?? How???

• Typical Peak BAC (from e-Chug) i.e. .24
• Risk Profile (33)
• BAC Goal Reduce .24 by 33 .16 MAX. Peak BAC
• Max. Goal for Anyone Double Legal Drunk
  reduce risk addiction and more serious negative
  consequences with life-long effects
• Shouldnt need to worry about blackouts, alcohol
  poisoning
• Still cant drive, have protected sex

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Question 7

• False

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Question 8

• False
• Each year, a number of college students die due
  to alcohol consumption
• Alcohol poisoning
• Aspiration pneumonia

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Emergency First Aid for Drunks

• Stay with them Watch them.
• Harm happens to drunk people accidents/rapes/poi
  soning
• Death occurs in alcohol poisoning because you
  drink enough to depress your respiratory center
  in the brain and stop breathing, or your heart
  stops, or your brain stops (coma). Or
• You drown in your own vomit.

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With Drunks DO

• Stay with them and track their respirations less
  than 8/minute or 10 seconds between breathes
  emergency
• They CAN get more drunk once they pass out
• Safety Position
• Check/poke for consciousness
• If in doubt, call 911 you only have 5 minutes
  if they stop breathing until brain dies
• Dont worry about getting them in trouble if
  YOU dont do something, they may be dead

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Question 9

• True
• Alcoholic drinks do have calories
• No vitamins, minerals or nutrients just empty
  calories

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Question 10

• True
• Most are moderate drinkers
• We overestimate the amount of heavy, high-risk
  drinking that occurs

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Perceptions vs. Reality
2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 Core Survey,
Southeast Missouri State University
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1 Reason Students Decide NOT to Drink

• 78 of Southeast Students Decide Not to Drink due
  to Academic Obligations the Next Day
• 66.1 Designated Driver
• 46.6 Cost of Alcohol
• 42.2 Potential of getting sick or hangover

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Southeast High-Risk Drinking(Consuming 5 or More
at 1 Sitting in Past 2 Weeks)
2006, 2005, 2004,2003, 2002, Core Survey,
Southeast Missouri State University
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Specific Tips for Reducing the Risk of Alcohol Use

• Set limits
• Keep track of how much you drink
• Space your drinks
• Alternate alcoholic w/non-alcohol drinks
• Drink for quality, not quantity
• Avoid drinking games
• If you choose to drink, drink slowly
• Dont leave your drink unattended
• Dont accept a drink when you dont know whats
  in it

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Core 2006 Other Drug Use

• Marijuana use
• 15.90 used less than Once/Month
• 5.41 used Once or Twice/Month
• 6.04 used Once a Week or More
• Cocaine use
• 1.91 used 6 times/Year or less
• Amphetamine use
• 3.04 used less than Once/Month
• 0.78 used Once or Twice/Month
• 2.08 used Once a Week or More

• Sedative use
• 1.44 used 6 times/Year or less
• Hallucinogen use
• 1.59 used Once/Year
• Opiate use
• 0.2 used Once/Year
• Designer Drug use
• 1.0 used 6 times/Year or less

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THANK YOU!

• PLEASE COMPLETE EVALUATIONS!

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Office of Substance Abuse Prevention Education

• Substance Abuse Prevention and Education (SAPE)
  services are available to students, faculty and
  staff. A variety of educational programs,
  individual counseling, and prevention activities
  can be provided upon request. A sampling of the
  services and related topics addressed through
  SAPE are as follows
• Alcohol and other drug assessment, counseling and
  referral
• How to help a friend or family member with an
  alcohol or other drug problem
• Assistance for recovering alcoholics and addicts
  through an on campus AA support group
• Information, support and counseling for "adult
  children of alcoholics"
• Education regarding the most abused drugs on
  campus
• Current statistics related to alcohol and drug
  use among Southeast students.
• www6.semo.edu/sape

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SEMO Students Drinking 3X/Week or More
R34 F83 S89
2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, Core Survey,
Southeast Missouri State University
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Alcohol POP Quiz

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How Much is Too Much?

• www6.semo.edu/sape
• Click on
• www.alcoholscreening.org
• How help a friend? www.ncadd.org

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Students Awareness of Campus AOD Efforts
2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 Core Survey,
Southeast Missouri State University
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PET Scan of Alcohol Marijuana on Adolescent
Brain
18 yr. old Marijuana Weekly User Since 15
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SOCIAL ECONOMIC COSTS

• 200 Billion/year
• Health-Related
• Lost Productivity
• Losses to Society from Premature Death
• Criminal Justice System
• Public Policy Laws