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Discuss the progressive effects of alcohol on the body as BAC increases.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Describe the identities and locations of two major enzyme systems that metabolize alcohol in the body.
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

The progression of effects of increasing BAC is relaxation, sense of well-being, and loss of inhibition; pleasure, numbing of feelings, nausea, sleepiness, and emotional arousal; mood swings, anger, sadness, and mania; aggression, reduced sensations, depression, and stupor; unconsciousness, coma, and possibly death.

Answer to Question 2

Alcohol dehydrogenase metabolizes alcohol within the stomach and liver, and the microsomal ethanol-oxidizing system (MEOS) is responsible for alcohol metabolism within the liver.





 

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