Health drugs & booze

• 1. Cerebral cortex
• 2. Cerebellum
• 3. Medulla
• 4. Central nervous system
• 5. Hypothalamus
• 6.Hippocampus

• decision making
• Act without thinking.

• Coordinating everyday movement
• Loss of balance

• Breathing
• Coma

• Sending signals through the body
• Slow movement

• Heart rate
• Increased hunger

• Memory
• Difficulty learning

• blur eyesight
• hard to adjust to light

• harder to absorb calcium
• osteoporosis

• body size
• gender
• food (slows it down)
• amount & rate of intake

medication has different or greater effect when taken with alcohol.

• brain
• memory
• judgement

• Less able to control body
• Impaired movement, speech, & vision.

• Thought processes disorganized.
• Memory & concentration dulled

• Judgement altered.
• Coordination impaired.

• With a little, heart increases. With more, decreases (depressant).
• Irregular heart rate.

• Expand, causing increased surface area.
• Temperature drop.

• Heart
• Blood vessels

• Stomach
• Liver
• Kidneys

• Lungs
• Breathing

• Increase stomach acid
• Nausea & vomiting

• Releases toxic chemicals as it metabolizes alcohol.
• Inflammation & scarring

• Increase urine
• Dehydration

Exhales CO2 from liver

Effects nerves, so with a lot, breathing may become slow, irregular, or stop.

• Slow absorbtion-increase side effects
• Increase metabolism-borken down faster, less effective
• Increase effect
• Metabolism can change medications into chemicals that damage organs.

Drinking to get drunk; 5 or more beers in one sitting.

Sever and potentially fatal physical reaction to alcohol overdose.

1/2 oz

3-7x more than tobacco

Stuck, don't want to do anything. No motivation.

cannabis

THC

• addiction
• loss of functions (verbal, memory, vision)
• damage (reduced size & cell)

• heart damage
• enlarged heart
• high blood pressure

• Fatty liver- fat builds, can't be broken down, blocks blood & kills liver cells.
• Alocoholic hepatitis-inflammation/infection
• Cirrhosis- liver tissue replaced by useless scar tissue

• irritation
• cancer
• ulcers

Lining swells and blocks passage from pancreas to small intestine. digestive chemicals can't escape & destroy it.

• alcohol-related birth defect.
• small head
• retardation
• slow growth and learning
• addicted to alcohol

physical or physchological addiction to alcohol.

• Abuse
• Dependance
• Addiction

process of learning to live an alcohol-free life.

living without alcohol.

absorbed, not digested

measures amount of alcohol in the blood.

.08

.50

• personality changes
• denies drinking
• irritable
• drinks frequently
• increased tolerance

• drinks in morning
• drinks at work/school
• noticeable signs
• memory loss
• doesn't keep promises

• lives to drink
• ignores hygeine
• liquor more important than family/friends/job
• isolation
• hallucinations
• liver disease
• decreased tolerance

Chemicals that affect the chemical nervous system and alter activity in the brain.

• cocaine
• crack
• amphetamines
• methamphetamine
• crystal meth

• barbituates
• tranquilizers
• rohypnol (roophies)
• GHB

• opium
• morphine
• herion
• codeine

• PCP
• LSD
• ecstacy
• ketamine
• marijuana

drugs that speed up the central nervous system

Drugs that slow down the central nervous system

• specific drugs derived from the opium plant that are obtainable only by prescription.
• relieve pain.

drugs that alter moods, thoughts, and sense perceptions including vision, hearing, smell, and touch.

• synthetic substances meant to imitate the effects of hallucinogens and other dangerous drugs.
• can be 100 times more powerful (ecstacy)

• household cleaners/products that are inhaled
• paint
• aerosal cans