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what fraction of us nondrinkers
Heavey?
Light/moderate? |
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| 1/3; 10% of 2/3; 90% of 2/3 |
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| two drink a day for men; one drink for women |
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| One Drink = ____ oz; _____ oz beer; ____oz wine; _____oz liquor |
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5+ drinks in a row:men
3+ drinks in a row:girls |
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| What parts of the brain does alcohol affect? |
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| cerebellum: balance and motor; prefrontal cortex: rational thinking problem solving |
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| what kind of drug is alcohol? |
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| contral nervous system depressant |
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| blood alcohol concentration |
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| mamout of alchohol i grams in 100 mL of blood |
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| what are the three stages to liver disease? |
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| fatty liver:swelling --> alcoholic hepatitis: inflammation and function --> cirrhosis: scarring |
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| When is drinking highest? |
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highest between 18 and 25 for
Whites and between 26 and 30 for Hispanics and
African Americans. |
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• Students at historically Black colleges and universities
have lower rates of binge drinking. |
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| what percentage of college student drinks |
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83%
– About half were binge drinkers
– First year college women binged more than other women
– One in five were frequent binge drinkers |
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Vomiting may be activated if a BAC reaches .12% or
higher in a rapid method (binge drinking). |
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a period of time during which a drinker
is conscious but has partial or complete amnesia for
events |
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| substance other than food that affects the structure or function of the body through chemical action |
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| mediccal drug used for nonmedical purposes or a drug with no medical uses |
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| pleasure and reward circuit |
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| pathway in the brain involving 3 structures: ventral tegmental area, nucleus accumbers, prefrontal cortex, associated with drug dependence |
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| drugs that speed up the activity in the brain and SNS |
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| cocanie, amphetamines, meth, MDMA Ectasy |
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| barbituates, hypnotics, rophy, GHB, anti-anxiety |
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| natural and synthetic deirivatives of opium |
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| morphine, herion, naurcotics |
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| durgs that alter your perceptions and thinking, intensyfying and distorting visiual and auditory perceptions and producing hallucinations |
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| consederation, communication, consistency, correct use |
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| process in which an infectious agent passes from one organism to another |
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| infectious agent capable of causing disease |
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| speend and intensity with which a pathogen is likely to cause an infection |
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| widespread outbreak of a disease that affects many |
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| marker on the surgace of a foreign substance that identifies it to immune celles |
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| proteinds that bind to specific antigens and trigger events that destroy them |
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| hypersensative reaction in which an antigen causes an immediate and severe reaction that can include itching, rash, swelling, shock and breathing probs |
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