Alcohol & Alcoholism
This is an example of a question asked on the CAGE Questionnaire.
Have you ever felt you should cut down on your drinking?
Have people annoyed you by criticizing or complaining about your drinking?
Have you ever felt guilty about your drinking?
Have you ever had a drink in the morning (an eye-opener) to steady your nerves or to get rid of a hangover?
This is a body function that is affected by nicotine.
What is heart rate?
What is blood pressure?
What is digestion?
What is sweating?
This is an aspect of living in balance.
What is biological or physical health?
What is psychological or emotional life?
What is social and family life?
What is spiritual life?
This is when you take alcohol or another drug for some time and then stop taking it.
What is substance withdrawal?
This is an effect of stimulant withdrawal.
What is withdrawal from stimulants causes depression?
What is withdrawal from stimulants causes lack of energy?
What is withdrawal from stimulants causes agitation?
Alcohol is categorized as this type of drug.
What is a sedative-hypnotic drug?
Alcohol is called a sedative-hypnotic drug because it acts as both a sedative and a hypnotic. Sedatives calm people down and reduce anxiety. Hypnotics cause people to become sleepy. Thus, alcohol is a drug that can calm people, reduce anxiety, and make people sleep.
This is a medical problem that can be caused by nicotine.
What are heart problems?
What is emphysema?
What is cancer?
This is one way that substances can affect people?
What is substances can change feelings?
What is substances can change behaviors?
What is substances can change thinking and perceiving?
This is a situation in which a person feels disoriented and confused and cannot maintain focus.
What is delirium?
This is an effect of depressant withdrawal.
What is withdrawal from depressants typically involves anxiety?
What is withdrawal from depressants typically involves tension?
What is withdrawal from depressants typically involves insomnia?
This is one of the four main stages of the development of alcohol.
What is tolerance? In stage 1, regular, heavy drinking begins to cause tolerance.
What is experiencing memory lapses? In stage 2, the drinker will begin to have memory lapses about things that happened while drinking.
What is losing control? In stage 3, a person loses the ability to control his or her drinking.
What is experiencing prolonged binges? Stage 4 includes prolonged binges of intoxication.
This is a withdrawal symptom of nicotine.
What are cravings?
What is restless anxiety?
What are headaches?
What is fatigue?
What is difficulty concentrating?
What is drowsiness?
What is irritability?
This is an effect of stimulant intoxication.
What is stimulants can cause people to experience anxiety?
What is stimulants can cause people to experience agitation?
What is stimulants can cause people to experience paranoia?
This occurs when people feel very sad or empty and experience a loss of interest or pleasure in activities.
What is depression?
This is a mental health disorder in which a person experiences delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized thinking.
What is a psychotic disorder?
This is an example of an alcohol-related disorders.
What is cancer? Using alcohol frequently increases the risk of mouth, tongue, throat, esophageal, and liver cancer.
What are liver problems? Using alcohol frequently increases the risk of fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis, and cirrhosis of the liver.
What are nervous system problems? Using alcohol frequently increases the risk of vitamin B1 deficiency, which can result in Wernicke encephalopathy and Korsakoff psychosis.
What are heart problems? Using alcohol frequently increases the risk of heart failure, coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, and strokes.
What are digestive problems? Using alcohol frequently increases the risk of gastritis and peptic ulcers.
This is an effect that nicotine can have on pregnant women.
What are spontaneous abortions?
What is fetal death?
What are stillborn babies?
What are babies with smaller birth weight?
This is an effect of depressant intoxication.
What is depressants can cause people to lose control?
What is depressants can cause people to feel depressed?
These are long-lasting thoughts, impulses, or images that are unwanted and cause distress.
What are obsessions?
This is a sign of a sleep-related problem.
What is difficulty falling asleep?
What is difficulty remaining asleep?
What is not feeling rested even after sleep?
What is excessive sleeping?
What is feeling very sleepy during waking hours?
This is a characteristic of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD).
What is an abnormally short baby with small eyes and a small jaw?
What is a baby with a smaller brain than normal, various heart defects, a cleft lip, a cleft palate, and joint problems?
What is a baby that nurses poorly, is irritable, and sleeps poorly?
This is a reason that many people find it difficult to quit smoking.
What is stimulation?
What is handling?
What are pleasure and relaxation?
What is anxiety reduction?
What is a craving?
What is a habit?
This is how alcohol and drugs can affect and/or be affected by mental health issues.
What is alcohol and drugs can trigger mental health disorders in those who are vulnerable?
What is alcohol and drugs increase the risk of disease and even death in those with mental health disorders?
What is people with mental health disorders are at greater risk for substance use disorders?
These are repetitive behaviors that a person often feels driven to do to get rid of anxieties.
What are compulsions?
This is a technique in which a person creates images in the mind that can influence what the mind and body do now and in the future.
What is a visualization?