AlcoholBY: VICTOR COOPERCLASS: DRUGS AND ALCOHOL IN SOCIETY

What is Alcohol?

Organic compound in which the Hydroxyl Functional Group is bound to a carbon atom

A drink contains about 3-60 % Ethanol Regulated by over 100 countries 1 Trillion dollar a year industry

Dangers of Alcohol Anemia- Low red blood cells to carry oxygen Cancer- mouth, throat, voice box, esophagus, liver, breast,

colorectal region Cardiovascular Disease- Blood clots Cirrhosis- Liver disease, cannot function correctly Seizures- Can cause epilepsi Gout- Uric acid in joints High blood preassure- Constriction of blood vessels Infectious Disease- Supresses the imune system Nerve Damage- Weakness, incontinence, constipation, ED Depression- Hand in hand, people who are depressed try to self

medicate themselves with alcohol. But makes everything extremely severe and can lead to suicide

Alcohol use Today

90 % of teenagers have used alcohol 13 yrs of age is average for 1st time drinkers 60% of emergency room visits are the cause of alcohol or drugs 28% of college dropouts are alcohol users 95% of all college campus violence is alcohol related over 50% of car accidents are the cause of alcohol 50% of suicides are caused by alcohol 50% of all violent crimes are caused by alcohol

Where did it come from?

About 10,000 BC in the Neotithic Period Egyptian pictographs about 4,000 BC show Importance First made with barley, berries and honey Discovered by complete accident Used as a form of medicine

Beer in ancient Egypt contained tetracycline numerous amounts of nutrition value

Alcohol in History

Considered to be a gift from the gods. Because of the feel good reaction it gives

Monks from the Catholic church where brew masters Old testament (Genesis 9:20) Noah planted a vineyard on Mt.

Aratat The first refrigerator was made to brew cold lager in USA The creation of agriculture

Harvesting Barley

Awesome Pictures

The Dark Ages

Beer saved million of lives in the middle ages In Europe, the water was so dangerous that drinking the water

would kill you Beer was the only thing you could drink without dying UC Berkley professor proves that the boiling process killed bacteria

and made the beer safe to drink The hard times made people consume a lot of beer and

unltimately saved them Children even drank beer a family would drink 600 liters of beer a year

Colonial times in the new world

When the Mayflower ran out of beer on the way to Virginia, They landed at the nearest point Plymouth Rock People where scarred of the water, so they all drank beer Accorn Beer kept the colony going forward and the first taverns in

the new world where built Dec 16th 1773 The Green Dragon Tavern is where the idea began for

the American Revolution. Plotted and planned in taverns "Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy "

Benjamin Franklin

Medicine 1850 Luis Pasteur studied beer before milk

Found smaller bacteria cells Germ Theory was the corner stone to modern medicine

Vaccines where created because now they understood what caused sickness and disease

Beer Consumption by Country

Import Vs Export

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