Exam 9: Alcohol

Alcohol metabolism is a two-step process. In the first step, alcohol dehydrogenase converts alcohol into acetaldehyde.

What symptoms do tremors, hallucinations, delusions, and seizures are all symptoms suggest?

Carbonated beverages slow down the absorption of alcohol from the stomach.

How often is the Canadian Alcohol and Drug Use Monitoring Survey (CADUMS) survey of alcohol and illicit drug use among Canadians aged 15 years and older conducted?

Which company became the first liquor manufacturing company to break the voluntary ban and advertised their product?

Describe Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD.

Describe what is known regarding breath samples to determine BAC.

CADUMS 2009 results show that 62% of Canadians reported drinking in the 12 months previous to the survey.

Describe some of the factors that influence blood alcohol concentration when drinking alcoholic beverages.

Which substance speeds up the absorption of alcohol?

In Canada what is viewed as the first step toward prohibition?

What describes the alcoholic content of beverages that uses the term "proof"?

Discuss the pattern of prohibition in Canada from 1901 until 1948. Describe some of the beliefs that led to the passage of prohibition, some of its effects, and some reasons leading to its repeal.

Among women in Canada who are problem drinkers what is the rate of FAS per 1000 births?

Cereal grains can also be used to produce alcoholic beverages.

Moosehead Breweries is the largest Canadian-owned brewer and controls what percent of the Canadian beer market?

In 2007 what was the total number of alcohol-related traffic fatalities in Canada?

Canadians prefer to drink their alcohol in which form?

Scientific evidence supports both parts of Shakespeare's 400-year-old statement concerning alcohol and sex: "It provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance."

Describe the processes of fermentation and distillation, and give examples of the kinds of beverages produced by each process.