Alcohol

Question 1

Pharmacology

Answer 1

• Initial effect- stimulant
• predominant effect - depressant
• anagesic
• cutaneous vasodilation (turns skin red)
• toxicity- respiratory depression

Question 2

pathology of chronic use

Answer 2

• polyneuropathy
• change in visual perception
• wernicke’s disease- reversible memory loss treated with b vitamins
• korsakoff’s syndrome- irreversible memory and learning loss
• cardiovascular disease- cardio muscle replace heart
• gi/hepatic diseases
  
  • gastritis, esophagatis (person bleed out), liver psoriasis, turns to rock

Question 3

COnsequences of use

Answer 3

• Fetal alcohol syndrome (2 drinks on any given day increases the chance)
• inhibition of antidiuretic hormone
• withdrawal
• agitation, tremor, anxiety, insomia
• hallucinations, seizure

Question 4

abstinence theraphy

Answer 4

• Disulfiram (scares a person so that they will no longer drink)
• competes with alcohol metabolic pathway
• toxicities with alcohol use
  
  • flushing vomiting,
  • decreased repiration
  • syncope(fainting blood pressure low)
  • arrhymias
  • cardiovascular collapse
  • seizures
• Side effects
  
  • depression
  • headache
  • metallic taste
• avoid elixirs