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.