Alcohol Awareness

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Alcohol Awareness

• Material developed based on information provided
  by the ASU Department of Public Safety and the
  Undergraduate Student Initiatives Office
• Corporal Aston 555
• Officer Osborne 527
• ASU Police

Presenter Name Presenter Title, Arizona State
University Last updated 06-21-07     
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Whats wrong with having a few drinks?
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What is a Violation?

• Having alcohol if you are under 21
• possession immediate span of control, not
  ownership
• Having alcohol in your body
• Having an open container of alcohol in vehicle
• Driving while under the influence (DUI)
• DUI
• DUI 0.08
• DUI 0.15 (extreme)

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Alcohol Facts

• 75 to 90 of campus rapes involve alcohol use
• 75 of men and 50 of women involved in sexual
  assaults had been drinking prior to the assault
• 60 of all college women who have acquired STDs
  including AIDS and Genital Herpes were under the
  influence of alcohol at the time of intercourse.

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Alcohol Facts

• 30 percent of college failure is alcohol
  related.
• Drinking and driving is the number one killer of
  Americans between the ages of 17-24
• Between 2 and 3 of the current American college
  population will die from alcohol related causes.
• 95 of violent crime on campus is alcohol
  related.

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Myths and Facts

• Myth Drugs are a bigger problem than alcohol
• Fact Alcohol kills 6 ½ times the number of
  people killed by cocaine, heroin, and every other
  illegal drug combined. Ten million Americans are
  addicted to alcohol. Alcohol is the 1 drug
  problem of today's youth.

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Myths and Facts

• Myth Alcohol affects men and women the same.
• Fact Women have less dehydrogenase, a
  metabolizing enzyme, which allows more of the
  alcohol to enter the blood stream in a pure state.

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Myths and Facts

• Myth If I drink coffee or eat something it will
  sober me up.
• Fact Once alcohol is in your bloodstream, there
  is nothing you can eat or drink to hasten
  metabolism. Certain other chemicals, like
  caffeine, can "open your eyes," but you are just
  as impaired.

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Myths and Facts

• Myth The most serious consequence of consuming
  alcohol is a hangover in the morning.
• Fact The consumption of enough alcohol will
  cause death. This level is dependant on the
  individual. Death has been documented to occur
  at levels as low as 0.35. Remember, each person
  is different.

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Alcohol Awareness Resources

• Downtown campus
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• Polytechnic campus
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• Tempe campus
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• West campus
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