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WORDS TO UNDERSTAND

delirium tremens: a series of symptoms caused by drinking excessive amounts of alcohol; symptoms include confusion, shaking, shivering, sweating, irregular heart rate, and even hallucinations fermentation: a metabolic process that changes various substances into other items, such as how yeast breaks down sugar and other carbohydrates into alcohol post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): this condition occurs after a person experiences a traumatic event and can cause depression, emotional disturbances, and other long-term issues Prohibition: a period from 1920 to 1933 in American history when a constitutional amendment banned the use and sale of alcohol; it was highly unpopular and led to an increase in organized crime rite of passage: a ritual, ceremony, or event that indicates that a person is transitioning to a new part of their life, such as binge drinking in college to become an adult socioeconomic: the economic groups that people are from

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