Chapter 15 Section 4

Empower teens with vital alcohol abstinence knowledge and refusal skills to confidently navigate peer pressure and make healthy choices.

True Abstinence is the best decision teens can make about alcohol. Refusal skills are the skills needed to say no. You should never get into a car with anyone who has been drinking. False When you refuse to drink, you should always apologize for not drinking. You should put yourself in situations where there is alcohol so you can practice refusal skills. Many adults don't abstain from alcohol. If you find yourself dependent on a drinker for a ride home, you should ask someone for help see if the drinker is drunk try to sober up the drinker worry about being rude to the drinker What activity should teens who abstain from alcohol avoid? going to parties where others are drinking organizing a school activity playing an instrument participating in a sport How can you prepare for peer pressure to drink? avoid thinking about alcohol think of reasons for not drinking go along with the crowd and pretend to drink hang out with peers who drink so you will get used to the pressure Sticking to a decision to abstain from alcohol means never being in places where other people are drinking being able to say no around people who are drinking offending people who ask you to drink trying to pressure other people not to drink Which choice states a correct relationship between age and alcohol? underage drinking is legal after age 21, everyone drinks few adults abstain from alcohol drinking is legal only at ages 21 and older