ALCOHOL ABUSE Final

Bipolar Disorder

A mood stabilizer and antipsychotic medication can be used to treat this disorder.

Parasuicidal

A person who harms themselves for the release of either tension or emotional pain.

Liver Metabolizes Alcohol Rate

3/4 to an ounce per hour.

Ethanol

Chemical name of the type of alcohol people generally consume.

Due to Lack of Proper Guidance

Children of alcoholics are at the greatest risk for alcohol dependence because of this.

Somatization

Common way of handling loss by the elderly that involves the emotional content out in the open, but "saying" in terms of its being the body that hurts or has other medical symptoms of dysfunction.

Screening Instruments

Commonly used, do not transfer well to older people.

Obsessive Compulsive Personality

Disorder preoccupied with perfectionism and control at the expense of flexibility and efficiency.

Extreme Defensiveness

Key behavioral trait among alcoholics.

7%

Less than 7% of the total population consumes 50% of all the alcohol.

E.M. Jellinek

Referred to as the father of alcohol studies (researching alcohol).

Drinking to Feel Normal

Hallmark characteristic of alcohol dependence.

Treatments

Harm reduction therapy, brief intervention, and patient education.

Blackouts

According to E.M Jellinek's phases of alcoholism, this occurs in the prodromal phase.

Crucial Phase

According to E.M. Jellinek's phases of alcoholism, loss of control is the key symptom that ushers in this phase.

Abstinence

According to Father Martin, the most effective method of treatment for alcoholics.

Water

According to Father Martin, the only chemical difference between ether and alcohol is that does not contain this:

Conform to Peer Pressure

Adolescents most common response when asked why he/she drinks.

$1.7 billion

Alcohol industry budget for 2010.

Absorption

Alcohol makes its way into the bloodstream through this.

Central Nervous System Depressing Drugs

Alcohol should not be taken in combination with these type of drugs.

Central Nervous System

Alcohol tolerance level and withdrawal symptoms originate from this:

DSM5

Alcohol use disorder is defined as the presence of at least two symptoms in a twelve month period-more symptoms depending upon severity from mild, to moderate, to severe.

10%

Alcohol-related deaths may run this high of all deaths annually.

5 Hours

Amount of hours that are required for all traces of alcohol to disappear from the system of a person who has had five drinks in an hour.

Mental-Health Specialist

An alcohol counselor to assess thought processes and evaluate the logic and order of what the client says.

Edema

An alcoholic's swollen ankles.

James Prochaska's Stages of Change Model

An individual in the pre-contemplation stage do not perceive the need for change.

In the Stage of Harmful Use

At a work related cocktail party, Ellen is overly flirtatious with her boss and happens to spill her wine on the Vice Presidents dress, thereby ruining it. Later on, Ellen gets very embarrassed . At the next work related cocktail party, she again drinks excessively. According to Vernon Johnson, Ellen is now:

Alcoholism and the Family

Author-Joan Jackson

Learning the Mood Swing

Behavioral changes associated with alcohol use and the emergence of dependence.

Control their Environment

Being the responsible one, the adjuster, or the placate are ways in which the children of alcohol-dependent parents do what?

Heavy Drinker 2

Between two people who have the same BAC, the one showing less impairment is most likely to be a what?

Alcohol Dependency and Psychiatric Disorder

Both disorders should be treated concurrently and aggressively.

Social Marketing and Media to Advertise and Teach Students about Alcohol Issues

Campus prevention approach designed to educate students about the actual drinking patterns.

Emotional Dependency Issues

During the initial months of recovery, they tend to turn to others for almost everything, they analyze the dependency needs that drove them to alcohol abuse in the first place

Washington Temperance Society

Early alcohol treatment group based on alcoholics helping each other.

Acute Pancreatitis

Effects how the body regulates sugar levels in the blood.

Psychological and Social Stresses

Elderly experience loss of family and friends, loss of status, and loss of attractiveness are what kind of stresses?

Diminish Negative Consequences and Allow Drinking to Continue

Enablers do this by protecting alcohol-dependent family members.

Family and Culture

Expectancies about alcohol's effects are shaped by this.

Family History of Alcoholism

Factors predicted by George Vaillant's study on alcoholism.

The Lost Child

Family Scapegoat

Alcohol

Fermentation is a naturally occurring process that produces this.

Binge Drinker

Five or more drinks on any given occasion during the last month.

Heavy Drinker

Five or more drinks on at least five occasions in the past month.

Schizophrenia

Formal thought disorder that is always marked by psychosis and is heterogeneous in its presentation. The co-occurrence of this and alcohol dependency makes the prognosis less hopeful.

Family

Historically, society and researchers have focused the least on the effect of drinking on an alcoholics what?

Anti-anxiety Agents

If alcohol were classified as a drug, to which drug would it be assigned to. Think Central Nervous System Depressant

Medical Complications

Important when screening alcohol dependent older people as well as psychological stresses that may have prompted the dependency and whether the dependency is early or late onset.

Alcohol-Dependent Women

In comparison to men, are more susceptible to medical complications.

Women Drugs Alcohol

In comparison to men, women have higher rates of using other drugs when drinking than men do.

Prohibition

In effect from 1920-1933 and shaped much of America's economic, social, and underground life.

Genetic Endowment

In terms of the individual, the most substantial risk factor for substance use and abuse is this:

Alcoholism

Incurable but highly treatable.

Twin Studies & Adoption Studies

Indicate that an apparent predisposition exists toward having, or being spared, the social deterioration association with dependence.

Neurotransmitters

Inherited brain chemistry that is particularly linked to this may influence alcohol dependence.

Psychological

Majority of the impairments symptomatic of alcohol abuse are what?

Opioids

Medical use of this includes treatment for pain.

Alcoholics Anonymous

Membership is open to anyone who wants to do something about his or her drinking problem.

Depressant Effects

Mild delirium is the result of what type of effects from alcohol?

Metabolic Process

Most of the alcohol is removed from the body through this process.

Methamphetamine

Most of this is manufactured illegally in clandestine ("home"/basement, trailer, or car).

Alcohol use differs from illicit drug use

Psychological defenses are employed before the harmful use stage in case of alcohol.

Work

Usually, the final part in a drinkers life that is affected.

Brain

Organ most sensitive to the acute effects of alcohol.

Liver

Organ that handles the first step in alcohol metabolism.

Harmful Use Stage

People in this stage drink to feel good and have fun.

Protective Factors Against Heavy Drinking

Personality characteristics such as a sense of optimism, self-esteem, being a non-risk taker.

Low Platelet Counts

Reason for alcoholics bruising easily.

Harm Reduction Efforts

Recognizes that substance use falls on a continuum of harmful consequences.

Abstinence

Requisite for recovery is viewed as having a solid physiological basis.

Responsible One

Role of a child that compensates as much time as possible for the instability and inconsistency introduced by a parental alcohol problem.

Marijuana

Schedule I category & most widely used illicit drug.

Substance Abuse Clinicians

Should work closely with their elderly clients' physicians and health care providers to secure they get properly assessed and treated.

Treatments for Alcoholism

Social costs of alcohol

Proportion of Drinkers

Statistically, this increases as income increases.

Cocaine

Stimulant

The Public Health Model

Systematic way of tackling the problem of disease and its causes by taking into account the agent, the host, and the environment.

Developmental Tasks of Adolescents

Tasks include the struggle to become comfortable with one's sexuality and the struggle towards independence.

Temperament

Tendency to be either shy or outgoing is part of a person's what?

Alcohol and Nicotine

The American choice of drugs are:

43%

The alcohol content in 86 proof bourbon is?

Abuse Potential

Variation in drugs in the likelihood that use will lead to abuse or addiction.

The Higher the BAC

The higher the risk of injury from a fall.

Delirium Tremens

The most serious form of alcohol withdrawal syndrome is this.

Pregnant Women

These tests were developed to meet the need for a sensitive, easy to administer screening for tolerance, worry about drinking, eye-opener, amnesia, and K/cut down.

Enabling Behavior

This behavior can leave the nonuser with feelings of resentment toward the user.

Distilled Liquor

This liquor has a higher alcohol content than fermented beverages.

Alcohol Problem

Those with this problem attempt suicide far more often when drinking than those without this problem.

Sedative-Hypnotics

Used for alcohol detoxification because they have properties similar to those of alcohol and they are anti-craving agents.

Chronic Phase

When alcohol dependence is now discussed as a disease, it is almost always characterized as this type of disease.

Most Likely to Drink the Most

White male who is an athlete and a fraternity member.

Women High BAC

Women have lower levels of a particular stomach enzyme when compared to men and have less water in their bodies.