Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Slippery Path
- Drugs
- Any substance other than food that can be inhaled,
injected, smoked, dissolved under the tongue, etc
- Recreational drugs
- Psychoactive drugs that alter the mental state
- Depressants
- Stimulants
- Psychedelic
- Types:
- Alcohol
- Cannabis
- Caffeine
- Opium
- Nicotine
- MDMA
- Cocaine
- Heroin
- Ketamine
- LSD
- Magic mushrooms
- Risk Factors
- Most likely to start during
puberty
- Peer Pressure
- Curiosity
- Rebellion
- Modelling parent behaviour
- Ignorance
- Poly Pharmacy
- Reasons it is followed
- Lessen the negative effect of one of the drugs
- Sleep problems
- Attempt to reduce dependance
- Some people only feel the effect in combinations
- Tolerance
- A state in which an organism no longer responds to the drug
- Difference between tolerance and resistance
- Tolerance: Diminished response of the
body to a drug
- Resistance: the ability of microorganisms and
cancer cells to withstand drug effect against them
- Physiological effect of addiction
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Violence
- Hallucinations
- Apathy
- Routes of administration
- Insufflation (Eg, Cocaine)
- Chewing/Sublingual (Eg, LSD)
- Intravenous (Eg, Heroin)
- Orally (Eg, Ecstasy)
- Smoking (Eg, tobacco)
- Signs & symptoms
- Sudden change in behavior
- Red/glassy eyes
- Loss of interest
- Injection spot
- Rehabilitation
- Help addicts to re-enter society
- Individual Counselling
- Group therapy
- Withdrawal Syndrome
- Anxiety
- Headaches
- Insomnia
- Sweating
- Delirium Tremens
- Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea
- Relapse
- Due to craving
- Stress
- Depression
- Wanting more and more
- Alcoholic Liver
Disease
- Fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis, etc
- Risk Factor
- Quantity of alcohol
- Genetic factors
- Iron overload
- Gender
- Malnutrition
- Tests
- CBC
- Liver biopsy
- Liver Function test
- Treatment
- Less Alcohol
- Vaccines against hepatitis A&B
- Diuretics
- Vitamin K and Sodium
- Antibiotics
- Symptoms
- Fatigue
- Poor appetite/weight loss
- Spidery blood vessels on the skin
- Ascites
- Jaundice