Brain
A memory disorder that results from vitamin B1 deficiency and is associated with alcoholism.
What is Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome?
Heavy drinking over a long period of time can weaken your heart muscles, causing them to stretch and droop. What is this condition called?
Cardiomyopathy
This causes abdominal pain and tenderness, dry mouth and increased thirst, fatigue, jaundice (which is yellowing of the skin), loss of appetite, and nausea.
What is Alcohol Liver Disease?
Compared to those without an alcohol use disorder, people with an AUD are more likely to develop the following three infections.
What are Pneumonia, TB, and RSV
Often linked to tobacco use, this condition is caused by a buildup of plaque that reduces blood flow in the peripheral arteries—the vessels that carry blood away from the heart to other parts of the body—particularly those in the legs.
What is Peripheral Artery Disease?
This substance produces its psychoactive and addictive effects primarily by acting on the brain’s limbic system, a set of interconnected regions that regulate pleasure and motivation.
What is Cocaine?
What causes an inflammation of the endocardium, the inner lining of the heart, as well as the valves that separate each of the four chambers within the heart.
What is Infective Endocarditis?
True or False the liver can regenerate itself?
True
AUD is associated with a 2- to 4-fold increased risk of what life threatening infection?
What is ARDS? Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
Drug and alcohol abuse can affect the production and processing of reproductive hormones such as testosterone and estrogen. For men what does this mean?
What is breast enlargement, testicular shrinkage, and impotence?
This drug binds to the body's opioid receptors, which are found in areas of the brain that control pain and emotions. Its effects include extreme happiness, drowsiness, nausea, confusion, constipation, sedation, tolerance, addiction, respiratory depression and arrest, unconsciousness, coma, and death.
What is Fentanyl
What are the two types of drugs that put you at highest risk for a heart attack?
What are Cocaine and Methamphetamines?
What condition causes high pressure in certain veins of the liver (portal hypertension) and low blood levels of a protein called albumin.
What is ascites?
Crack Lung is a term referred to smoking which substance? What are the three examples of damages to the lungs?
What is cocaine?
Respiratory Irritation, Pneumonia, Pulmonary Edema
This substance interferes with the body’s ability to absorb and utilize calcium, which results in weakened and fragile bones. This means you are more prone to injuries and more susceptible to osteoporosis.
What is Alcohol?
This class of medications slow down the central nervous system by increasing the effects of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), a natural chemical in the brain.
Benzodiazepines
More often which class of drugs slow down the function of the heart and can cause symptoms such as low blood pressure and weakness?
What are benzodiazepines?
What is a result of liver damage from conditions such as hepatitis B or C, or chronic alcohol use?
What is Cirrhosis?
What part of lungs are damaged by nicotine smoking?
What are airways and the small air sacs (alveoli)?
Alcoholic pancreatitis is a potentially fatal inflammation of the pancreas that can be short-term (acute) or long-term (chronic). Name three ways the pancreas is damanged.
What drug forces the brain to release neurotransmitters called noradrenaline and dopamine?
What is Methamphetamine?
Coronary heart disease occurs when the arteries of the heart cannot deliver enough oxygen-rich blood to the heart because of a narrowing of blood vessels. This occurs when there is plaque buildup within the arteries. Which substance can cause an increase in plaque?
What is Alcohol?
Give 5 Examples of what the liver does.
Digestion, Blood Regulation, Detoxification, Blood Clotting, Hormone Production, Vitamin Storage
Name some long term damages of smoking cigarettes and how they affect the body.
Lung Cancer, COPD, Emphysema, and Chronic Bronchitis
Tooth decay and cracked teeth caused by tooth grinding and poor oral hygiene is related to which substance?
Methamphetamine
"Meth Mouth"