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Drugs and Alcohol Flashcards

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Pharmacological Properties

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Overall effects of a drug on a persons behaviour, psychology, and chemistry (eg. composition)

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Dose-Response Function

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Relationship between the amount of drug taken and intensity and type of resulting effect (eg intensity)

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Time-Action Function

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Relationship between the time elapsed since the drug was taken and the intensity of its effects (eg lag time)

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Drug History

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Past or habitual usage may impact the tolerance, peaks, and longevity of the drugs (eg first time or not)

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Route of Administration

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Method of intaking drug

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Physical Factors

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weight (greater in skinny over fat people), personal metabolic rates, pregnancy, M vs F, genetics

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psychological factors

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Social settings influencing experience and effect of drug

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Effects of Cocaine: Central Nervous System

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Suppressed desire for food, sex, sleep

Can cause strokes, seizures, and neurological damage

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Effects of Cocaine: Cardiovascular System

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Increased blood pressure from constricted blood vessels

Irregular heartbeat and damaged tissues

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Effects of Cocaine: Respiratory System

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Freebasing (smoking crack) can cause lung damage

Overdose can lead to respiratory arrest (stopped breathing for prolonged period)

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Effects of Cocaine: Reproductive System

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M: Erectile, ejaculatory, and sperm dysfunction

F: miscarriage

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Effects of Cocaine: Nose

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Damage mucous membrane

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Effects of Cannabis: Brain & CNS

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Dulled sensory and cognitive skills (changed brain chemistry)

Alters motor coordination

Difficulty concentrating, attention to detail, and learning new info

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Effects of Cannabis: CVS

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Increases heart rate and blood pressure

Decreased blood flow to limbs (amputation in extreme cases)

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Effects of Cannabis: Respiratory System

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Damages lungs (50% more than tobacco)

Cause lung cancer

May damage throat from inhalation

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Effects of Cannabis: Reproductive System

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Women = impaired ovulation and pregnancy irregularities

Men = Sexual dysfunction and irregular sperm

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Positives of Cannabis: Brain & CNS

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Increased sense of euphoria

Minimizes headaches and cancer spread

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Positives of Cannabis: Vision

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Reduces intraocular pressure, helps with glaucoma

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Positives of Cannabis: Digestive System

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Combats nausea from chemotherapy and helps minimize vomitting

Helps restore appetite in people who have lost weight due to cancer or AIDS

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Positives of Cannabis: Muscular System

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Helps calm spasms from spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, and possibly epilepsy

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Acute Effects of Alcohol: CNS

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Impaired reaction time, motor coordination, judgement and sedation

High dose can cause coma and death

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Acute Effects of Alcohol: Senses

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Less acute vision, smell, taste, and hearing

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Acute Effects of Alcohol: Stomach

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Nausea, inflammation, and bleeding

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Acute Effects of Alcohol: Skin

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Flushing, sweating, heat loss and hypothermia

Formation of broken capillaries

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Acute Effects of Alcohol: Sexual Functioning

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Erectile dysfunctions

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Effects of Chronic Use of Alcohol: Brain

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Damaged/ destroyed brain cells; impaired memory; loss of sensation in limbs, brain atrophy

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Effects of Chronic Use of Alcohol: CVS

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Weakened cardiac muscle; elevated blood pressure; irregular heartbeat; increased risk of stroke

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Effects of Chronic Use of Alcohol: Breast

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Increased risk of breast cancer

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Effects of Chronic Use of Alcohol: Immune System

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Lowered resistance to disease

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Effects of Chronic Use of Alcohol: Digestive System

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Cirrhosis of the liver; hepatitis; inflammation of stomach and pancreas; increased risk of cancers

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Effects of Chronic Use of Alcohol: Kidney

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Kidney failure associated with end-stage of liver disease

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Effects of Chronic Use of Alcohol: Nutrition

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nutrient deficiencies; obesity

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Effects of Chronic Use of Alcohol: Reproductive System

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Women = menstrual irregularities and increased risk of having children with FAS

men = impotence and impaired sperm production

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Effects of Chronic Use of Alcohol: Bone

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high risk of osteoporosis; increased risk of fractures from frequent fails

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Drugs

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any chemicals other than food to affect structure or function of the body

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Psychoactive Drugs

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alter experiences or consciousness

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Intoxication

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state of being mentally affected by a chemical (eg state of being poisoned)

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Addictive Behaviours

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habits that become out-of-control leading to negative health impacts

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Addiction

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chronic disease impacting brain motivation, reward and memory, characterized by compulsive desire and increasing need for substance, and by harm to individual and/or society

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