NURS354 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Prescription Drug, Dual Diagnosis, Ketamine
3 Jun 2019
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Children of alcoholics are 4x more likely to become alcoholics - genetic component and role modeling behavior. At least 4 people are directly affected by every substance abuser. Alcoholic families use twice as many healthcare resources as non-alcoholic families - because of all the negative health complications, alcohol-induced accidents, recovery and rehab facilities. Yes but what is his story behind that - don"t be so harsh and say they brought it on themselves; yes they did make that choice but you don"t know why. Recurrent substance use in situations which it is physically hazardous. Body adapts to presence of this poison in the body. Liver develops pathways to metabolize the alcohol more efficiently and free radicals go to parts of the body where they"re not supposed to because the mitochondria isn"t doing its job. Cellular membrane in cns thickens to prevent alcohol permeation - even though this membrane should usually be selectively permeable.
