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Test 4
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Health Care
Undergraduate 2
12/01/2014

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Term
What is addiction?
Definition
A chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory, and related circuitry
Term
What are some of the characteristics of an addict?
Definition
Uncontrollable compulsion to engage in the behavior
Loss of pleasure
Poor impulse control
Low stress tolerance
Psychiatric disorders
Term
What is a drug?
Definition
A chemical substance that alters the body physically or mentally for a non-nutritional purpose
Term
What is the difference between drug use, misuse, and abuse?
Definition
Drug use: using prescribed medication properly
Drug Misuse: The inappropriate use of a legal drug either for a reason for which it was not intended or by a person without a prescription
Drug Abuse: The use (often excessive) of any legal or illegal drug in a way that is detrimental to your health
Term
What are the different classes of drugs?
Definition
Cannabis: Marijuana
Stimulants: Meth, Coke
Hallucinogens: LSD, PCP
Club Drugs: MDMA (ecstasy), Rohypnol (roofies)
Inhalants: Paint thinner, glue
Depressants: Barbiturates
Opioids: Heroin, Oxycodone
Term
What does it mean to build tolerance to something?
Definition
Reduced sensitivity to a drug so that increased amounts are needed to achieve the usual effect
Term
What are the different ways in which a drug can be administered?
Definition
Ingestion
Injection (subcutaneous is under skin, intramuscular is in muscle, intravenous is in veins)
Inhalation
Mucus absorption (chewing tobacco, coke)
Topical administration (nicotine patch)
Term
What are different types of high-risk drinking behaviors?
Definition
Underage Drinking
Pre-Gaming
Binge Drinking (a pattern of drinking alcohol that results in a blood alcohol concentration of .08 or above)
Heavy Drinking (5 or more drinks on same occasion on 5 or more days in 30 day period)
Term
What are the 5 sub types of alcoholic?
Definition

The young adult sub type

The young antisocial type

The functional sub type

The intermediate family sub type

The chronic sever sub type

Term
How are drugs metabolized by the body?
Definition
The organs involved in metabolizing drugs are the same organs that break down and eliminate nutritional waste
Term
What are the symptoms of alcohol poisoning?
Definition
Depression of the central nervous system
slowed breathing
slowed heart rate
compromised gag reflex
mental confusion
vomiting
seizures
slow or irregular breathing
low body temp
pale or blue-ish skin color
Term
What is our BAC? How is it measured?
Definition
Blood Alcohol concentration is the amount of alcohol present in the blood, measured in grams of alcohol per deciliter of blood
Term
Long term effects of heavy drinking?
Definition
-Inreased risk for cancer (liver, breast, esophogus, mouth, larynx, throat)
-Raised Blood triglyceride level and other heart ailments
-Weight gain
-Nutritional deficits
-Brain damage
-Impaired learning ability
-Fatty liver
-Alcoholic hepatitis (inflammation of the liver)
-Alcoholic cirrhosis (the liver is subjected to alcohol a lot over many years and the liver cells cease to function and are replaced by scar tissue)
-Fetal alcohol syndrome (mental and physical birth defects found in children whose mothers drank excessively during pregnancy)
Term
Why is tobacco so addicting?
Definition
It contains Nicotine a highly addictive drug that triggers the brain to release dopamine which gives the feeling of pleasure
Term
What are the short-term effects of smoking?
Definition
-Increased heart rate and blood pressure
-Shortness of breath and reduction in stamina
-Coughing
-Heightened alertness
-Decreased skin temperature
-Increased blood glucose
-Dulled sense of smell and taste
Term
What are the long-term effects of smoking? (The answers include the diseases that are caused by chronic smoking)
Definition
-Cancer
-Coronary Heart Disease
-Stroke
-Abnormal Aortic Aneurysm
-Smokers cough
-Reduced lung function and capacity
-Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (includes emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and chronic asthmatic bronchitis)
-Periodontal disease
-Vision impairment
-Bone probz
-Advanced skin aging
Term
What types of smoke can somebody be exposed to, and how are they different?
Definition
-Secondhand smoke (environmental tobacco smoke): the smoke nonsmokers are exposed to when someone has been smoking nearby; a combination of sidestream smoke and mainstream smoke
-Sidestream smoke: smoke emanating from the burning end of a cigarette or pipe
-Mainstream smoke: smoke exhaled from the lungs of smokers
-Thirdhand smoke: deposits of toxic chemicals generated from smoking that build up on environmental surfaces
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