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What is Alcohol? Need More Help?

Alcohol is any beverage containing Ethanol. It If you’d like to speak to someone, local treatment
is one of the oldest known drugs and has been services will be able to provide support for you
used by humans for centuries. It is also known and your family, and can answer any questions
by many other names including grog, booze, you may have about alcohol, withdrawal, and
plonk and brew. recovery.

The term ‘alcohol’ is typically used for Ethanol, • Parents, Elders and trusted friends
or ethyl alcohol. Ethanol is produced by the • GPs and Pharmacists
fermentation of carbohydrates by yeasts, and
can occur naturally in overripe and rotting • Local Alcohol and Other Drug Services Alcohol
fruits . adin.com.au/help-support-services
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or look under A in the phone book
The differences between alcoholic drinks (such
as beer and spirits) are due to the methods and
ingredients used to produce the beverage. 000 In an emergency call 000

Alcohol is measured in ‘Standard Drinks’.
1 standard drink is 10grams of alcohol. • Fire, Ambulance, Police 000 Alcohol...
• Lifeline Australia 13 11 14 is it just a drink?
Alcohol is typically drunk in a beverage • Kid’s Helpline 1800 55 1800
though it can be used in cooking where most
of the alcohol burns or vaporises away. • Poisons Information Centre 13 11 26 Alcohol is a legal drug. Most people drink
• Family Drug Support a 24/7 service
fds.org.au or 1300 368 186 alcohol responsibly most of the time. A
proportion of drinkers will consume alcohol
• www.everybodys.business at a level that increases their risk of harm
• tuneinnotout.com - youth website including injury, and for those who regularly
• Medicines Line 1300 MEDICINE drink excessively, the possibility of disease
• Get the effects by txt! 0439 TELL ME or even death.
Alcohol • More brochures in this series available at
is a central aldaf.org.au Once consumed, the effects of alcohol
nervous system start within 5-10 minutes on the body and
depressant brain. These effects will continue in varying

meaning it slows intensities until the alcohol has been
down messages to A resource of processed by your body.
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