1. Alcohol BY: VICTOR COOPER CLASS: DRUGS AND ALCOHOL IN SOCIETY

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

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8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. Beer Consumption by Country

12. Import Vs Export

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