Alcohol Dependency/Addiction and how to Break it!

How it Travels1. Alcohol enters the mouth.

2. Alcohol travels down the throat to the stomach.

3. Alcohol is absorbed into the blood by the stomach and small intestine.

4. Alcohol travels through the blood to the water-containing organs of the body.

5. Alcohol affects many brain functions.

6. Alcohol is metabolized in the liver.

7. Alcohol is excreted from the body after processing by the kidneys.

Sizes & Content

Type of Drink Volume of Serving (oz.)

Concentration of Alcohol (%)

Amount of Alcohol (oz.)

Beer 12 5 .6

Wine 5 12 .6

Hard Liquor 1.5 40 .6

“Why Do People Drink?” Activity

Break up into 8 groups of 3-4 students each.

Dependence/Addiction vs. Alcoholism

Abuse Dependence/Addiction Alcoholism

HowCast video on Alcoholism vs. Dependence/Addiction

Overcoming

HowCast video on How to Overcome Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

The 12-Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10.Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

11.Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

12.Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Other Treatment Programs

Moderation Management Encourages people to manage their drinking

behavior by limiting intake or abstaining

Al-Anon companion program to AA for families and

friends of alcoholics; they look at ways they enabled the alcoholic to drink by denying, rationalizing, or covering up their drinking and how they can change this codependent behavior Codependency= when someone close to the

abuser allows the drinking to control their behavior

Quiz Time!