PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Palpitations, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
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Side effects: withdrawal from alcohol can cause an anxious and depressed mood, weakness, restlessness, muscle tremors, and increased pulse, blood pressure, and temperature, changes in liver enzymes also occur. Nature of alcohol abuse: the disease model suggests that excessive drinking is due to vulnerabilities within a person, such as genetic predispositions and brain chemistry. Furthermore, no cure is possible: the moral model suggests that excessive drinking is a reflection of personal failures and bad choices. Prevention: parental awareness, providing general education about the effects of drugs, limiting access to alcohol, restricting media from advertising alcohol, face to face interventions. Harm reduction therapy: alan marlatt conducted research on this type of therapy in order to prevent substance abuse, focuses on controlling and reducing drinking behaviours rather than abstinence. Types of substances used: glue, correction fluid, spray paint, cosmetics, gasoline, household aerosol sprays, nitrous oxide.
