four days‚ before moving half of the rats to a new location and injecting them with a larger amount of ethanol. The rats that stayed in the same location remained relatively healthy‚ while nearly two-thirds of the rats in the new location died of alcohol poisoning. A similar experiment involving rats and morphine showed that the body can overcompensate for the expected effects of a drug when presented with a smaller dose. Rats were given relatively large doses of morphine for several days‚ and when
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to the patient: Mr Shankappa has studied up to 9th standard ( incomlete) after which he had lost interest in studies & joined in his father’s business because of which his girlfreind left him. After this incidence patient started to consume alcohol‚ felt betrayed & could not stay in his hometown. So he ran away to Mumbai & worked their for an year‚ Came back & joined in a travel agency for 6 months. He was working as an autodriver during which he met with an accident‚ According
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Alcoholism addiction What is alcoholism? Alcoholism is when you abuse alcohol‚ you continue to drink even though you know your drinking is causing problems. If you continue to abuse alcohol‚ it can lead to alcohol dependence. Alcohol dependence is also called alcoholism. You are physically or mentally addicted to alcohol. You have a strong need‚ or craving‚ to drink. You feel like you must drink just to get by. For more than millions of people have been affected by an addict that destroyed their
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Excessive alcohol misuse in the community and the social and economic consequences that result.’ Alcohol misuse can be defined as "the use of alcohol such as to damage or threaten to damage the health or social adjustment of the user‚ or those persons directly affected by his or her drinking." (http://hcna.radcliffe-oxford.com/alcoholmisuse.htm). Alcohol misuse has great effects on the community as it is associated with poor health‚ crime‚ disorder and social and economic harms. The UK has
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Running head: ALCOHOL AND WOMEN Alcohol and Women Alcohol and Women Throughout history‚ discussions of and concern about women ’s drinking have commonly been characterized by distortion‚ myth‚ prejudice and stereotyping. Until relatively recently‚ many studies were male-oriented‚ and excluded women. Other studies included both genders but often failed to examine possible gender differences in alcohol consumption‚ alcohol-related behaviours and experiences. "The issue"‚ in this context‚ is
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Alcohol Abuse By: Rian Geraldine S. Alberto Alcohol • • • • Alcohol is a drink containing ethanol It is a lipid that is highly water soluble A psychoactive drug that has a depressant effect. Distribution: Ethanol is distributed equally in all body tissue according to water content. • Metabolism: A healthy body can metabolize 15ml of alcohol/hour • Alcohol is metabolized by the liver but 10% is excreted unchanged in the breath‚ sweat and the urine Metabolism of alcohol Alcohol Aldehyde
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Dangers of Alcohol There are many dangers of using Alcohol‚ but there are only about 3 that stand out the most to me. The 3 dangers that get my attention are liver problems‚ bad judgment‚ and addiction. Although these may not be the deadliest dangers of alcohol‚ they are the deadliest to me. First off‚ the job of the liver is to remove toxins from the body. Alcohol is a type of toxin that the liver has to try and remove. The liver can only process so much alcohol‚ and any extra alcohol that is left
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Leader within‚ LST 101 17 September 2013 Alcohol Responsibility Attitudes refer to an individual’s evaluation‚ either positive or negative‚ of a specific Behavior or situation. (Fishbein‚ et al.‚ 2001) and belief is a perception that something is right and worth being done. My perception on alcohol use is totally negative basing on what I see every day. Alcohol drinkers experienced myriads of challenges and risks in their life as long as they use alcohol. Some of these risks include; health‚ accidents
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Alcohol Advertising Exposure to alcohol advertising is an everyday occurrence. Alcohol advertising is persuasive not only to adults but to those who are too young to buy alcohol legally. Although parents and peers have a large impact on youth decisions to drink‚ marketing also has a significant impact by influencing the attitudes of parents and peers and helping to create an environment that promotes underage drinking. Alcohol companies focus billions of dollars on advertising their products
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The Misconceptions of Alcohol Abuse IRV MES [University] Part I Abstract The unsafe use of alcohol has a grave effect on public health and is considered to be one of the main risk aspects for poor health globally. The concept of the harmful use of alcohol is wide-ranging and includes the drinking that causes detrimental in well-being and social consequences for the drinker‚ the people surrounding the drinker and community at large‚ as well as the forms of drinking that are
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