2. Why is this issue important?
For years, alcohol has been a part
of social gatherings, celebrations, and
rituals. Addiction to alcohol is more of a
problem today than it has ever been in the
past. Unlike a century ago, we are now more
aware of the serious complications it can
cause.

3. People drink alcohol to…
0 Feel more relaxed
0 Look cool
0 Forget problems
0 Join the party
0 Have fun during the holidays
0 Enjoy sporting events
0 Become intoxicated

4. How many people do you
think that drinks alcohol?

5. How does alcohol impact
others?
0Kids look up to their parents or
to their siblings. When they see they are
having fun drinking with their buddies
or when they see an advertisement of
alcohol, they’ll misunderstand the
message of alcohol and think it’s good
for them.

6. 0 Fetal alcohol syndrome – a serious problem
that can develop in the fetus of women who
drink during pregnancy.
0 Outbursts of emotions can cause the alcoholic
person to be violent and harms other people
around him/her.

7. Children whose parents abuse alcohol and
other drugs are three times more likely to
be abused and more than four times more
likely to be neglected than children from non-
abusing families.

8. 0 Driving while intoxicated can cause serious
problems on the road. The intoxicated driver
can crash on to someone else and chances are
they both will die, just one of them, or by
miracle… they just survive with just bruises.

9. What can alcohol damage?
0 Heart
0 Brain
0 Joints
0 Liver
0 Kidney
0 Esophagus
0 Muscles

10. Immediate Effects
0 Blurred Vision
0 Slurred speech
0 Increased heart beat
0 Lowers body temperature
0 Vomiting
0 Hangover
0 Alcohol Poisoning (death)

11. Symptoms alcohol can cause
0 Serious medical conditions:
0 Cancer
0 Depression
0 Heart and respiratory failure
0 Cirrhosis
0 Wernicke – Korsakoff Syndrome
0 And many more…

12. More examples of problems
alcohol can cause
0 Debts
0 Drugs
0 Vandalism
0 More expensive habits such as gambling.
0 Unprotected intercourse under the influence
of alcohol can lead to unwanted pregnancy.

13. Being under the influence
of alcohol makes you lose
sight of what’s right or
wrong.

14. Pictures of people that are
These guys
learned the affected by alcohol
hard way.
Do you want
to be like
them?

15. What can you do to prevent
yourself from drinking
alcohol?
0 Volunteer in any community activities.
0 Develop personal, social, and resistance skills.
0 Take more extracurricular activities from school.

16. What can you do to help this
issue?
0 Persuade others not to take any alcohol.
0 Tell your friends about the consequences of
alcohol.
0 Be a role model to your relatives.
0 Don’t drink alcohol. One less drunkard makes
a difference.

18. Created by:
Crystine Tecson
Emerging Technology
1st hour