This document discusses how alcohol affects the brain and causes dysfunction. It explains that alcohol acts on neurotransmitters like GABA and norepinephrine to depress brain function. Heavy or long-term alcohol use can damage areas of the brain involved in decision-making, memory formation, and motor control. The progression of alcoholism involves four stages from experimentation to physical dependence and addiction. Treatment requires stopping drinking and using therapy and medication to help repair brain damage over time.
A presentation given at the 2016 Traffic Safety Conference during Breakout Session 14: Drugs and Driving. By Robert D. Johnson, Ph.D., F-ABT, Chief Toxicologist, Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office
This slides present to you some facts you must keep to mind about alcohol poisoning. Don't just laugh it off. People have lost loved ones because of not taking appropriate actions. Read this and share it with friends. You might be saving a soul
PSYCHIATRY REVISION NOTES REVISION NOTES BASED ON LECTURE NOTES WITH PREVIOUS YEAR QUESTIONS
WITH HIGH YIELD TOPICS
ALCOHOL
CAFFEINE
NICOTINE
COCAINE
SUBSTANCE ABUSE DISORDERS
NEET AIIMS PG PREPARATION
A presentation given at the 2016 Traffic Safety Conference during Breakout Session 14: Drugs and Driving. By Robert D. Johnson, Ph.D., F-ABT, Chief Toxicologist, Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office
This slides present to you some facts you must keep to mind about alcohol poisoning. Don't just laugh it off. People have lost loved ones because of not taking appropriate actions. Read this and share it with friends. You might be saving a soul
PSYCHIATRY REVISION NOTES REVISION NOTES BASED ON LECTURE NOTES WITH PREVIOUS YEAR QUESTIONS
WITH HIGH YIELD TOPICS
ALCOHOL
CAFFEINE
NICOTINE
COCAINE
SUBSTANCE ABUSE DISORDERS
NEET AIIMS PG PREPARATION
This pamphlet gives a right image of women in Islam beyond any stereotypes. It shows how Islam sees women through religious obligations, marriage, social roles and her supreme position in Islam. On the contrary, the pamphlet shows how the other religions deal with women.
Background: The Gateway Drug Theory suggests that licit drugs, such as tobacco and alcohol, serve as a "gateway" toward the use of other, illicit drugs. However, there remains some discrepancy regarding which drug-alcohol, tobacco, or even marijuana-serves as the initial "gateway" drug subsequently leading to the use of illicit drugs such as cocaine and heroin. The purpose of this investigation was to determine which drug (alcohol, tobacco, or marijuana) was the actual "gateway" drug leading to additional substance use among a nationally representative sample of high school seniors.
Methods: This investigation conducted a secondary analysis of the 2008 Monitoring the Future 12th-grade data. Initiation into alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use was analyzed using a Guttman scale. Coefficients of reliability and scalability were calculated to evaluate scale fit. Subsequent cross tabulations and chi-square test for independence were conducted to better understand the relationship between the identified gateway drug and other substances' use.
Results: Results from the Guttman scale indicated that alcohol represented the "gateway" drug, leading to the use of tobacco, marijuana, and other illicit substances. Moreover, students who used alcohol exhibited a significantly greater likelihood of using both licit and illicit drugs.
Conclusion: The findings from this investigation support that alcohol should receive primary attention in school-based substance abuse prevention programming, as the use of other substances could be impacted by delaying or preventing alcohol use. Therefore, it seems prudent for school and public health officials to focus prevention efforts, policies, and monies, on addressing adolescent alcohol use.
Background: The Gateway Drug Theory suggests that licit drugs, such as tobacco and alcohol, serve as a "gateway" toward the use of other, illicit drugs. However, there remains some discrepancy regarding which drug-alcohol, tobacco, or even marijuana-serves as the initial "gateway" drug subsequently leading to the use of illicit drugs such as cocaine and heroin. The purpose of this investigation was to determine which drug (alcohol, tobacco, or marijuana) was the actual "gateway" drug leading to additional substance use among a nationally representative sample of high school seniors.
Methods: This investigation conducted a secondary analysis of the 2008 Monitoring the Future 12th-grade data. Initiation into alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use was analyzed using a Guttman scale. Coefficients of reliability and scalability were calculated to evaluate scale fit. Subsequent cross tabulations and chi-square test for independence were conducted to better understand the relationship between the identified gateway drug and other substances' use.
Results: Results from the Guttman scale indicated that alcohol represented the "gateway" drug, leading to the use of tobacco, marijuana, and other illicit substances. Moreover, students who used alcohol exhibited a significantly greater likelihood of using both licit and illicit drugs.
Conclusion: The findings from this investigation support that alcohol should receive primary attention in school-based substance abuse prevention programming, as the use of other substances could be impacted by delaying or preventing alcohol use. Therefore, it seems prudent for school and public health officials to focus prevention efforts, policies, and monies, on addressing adolescent alcohol use.
Background: Given ever-reducing budgets of community and school substance use prevention programs, there is a call for identifying the first substance in the sequence leading to polydrug use.
Methods: Examining data from a nationally representative sample of 2835 United States 12th graders, we sought to determine (1) the first substance adolescents use; (2) order in which adolescents progress through alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use; and (3) impact of age of initial substance use on lifetime and frequency of illicit substance use.
Results: Alcohol is the most commonly used substance, and the majority of polysubstance using respondents consumed alcohol prior to tobacco or marijuana initiation. Respondents initiating alcohol use in sixth grade reported significantly greater lifetime illicit substance use (M = 1.9, standard deviation [SD] = 1.7, p < .001) and more frequent illicit substance use (M = 6.0, SD = 6.5, p < .001) than those initiating alcohol use in ninth grade or later. Overall, effect sizes for these differences were large (eta squared = 0.30 and 0.28, respectively).
Conclusions: Findings underscore the importance of screening for substance use, even among youth enrolled in elementary/middle school. In addition, schoo
This is a presentation made for the teaching of the danger of drug abuse, it is expository teaching that reprimands the youth on the need to keep away from drugs (illegal drugs).
Their sanity and mental health should be prioritized more than any other thing.
It is a most read for every youth out there.
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This content provides an overview of preventive pediatrics. It defines preventive pediatrics as preventing disease and promoting children's physical, mental, and social well-being to achieve positive health. It discusses antenatal, postnatal, and social preventive pediatrics. It also covers various child health programs like immunization, breastfeeding, ICDS, and the roles of organizations like WHO, UNICEF, and nurses in preventive pediatrics.
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Stewardship is the act of taking good care of something.
Antimicrobial stewardship is a coordinated program that promotes the appropriate use of antimicrobials (including antibiotics), improves patient outcomes, reduces microbial resistance, and decreases the spread of infections caused by multidrug-resistant organisms.
WHO launched the Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS) in 2015 to fill knowledge gaps and inform strategies at all levels.
ACCORDING TO apic.org,
Antimicrobial stewardship is a coordinated program that promotes the appropriate use of antimicrobials (including antibiotics), improves patient outcomes, reduces microbial resistance, and decreases the spread of infections caused by multidrug-resistant organisms.
ACCORDING TO pewtrusts.org,
Antibiotic stewardship refers to efforts in doctors’ offices, hospitals, long term care facilities, and other health care settings to ensure that antibiotics are used only when necessary and appropriate
According to WHO,
Antimicrobial stewardship is a systematic approach to educate and support health care professionals to follow evidence-based guidelines for prescribing and administering antimicrobials
In 1996, John McGowan and Dale Gerding first applied the term antimicrobial stewardship, where they suggested a causal association between antimicrobial agent use and resistance. They also focused on the urgency of large-scale controlled trials of antimicrobial-use regulation employing sophisticated epidemiologic methods, molecular typing, and precise resistance mechanism analysis.
Antimicrobial Stewardship(AMS) refers to the optimal selection, dosing, and duration of antimicrobial treatment resulting in the best clinical outcome with minimal side effects to the patients and minimal impact on subsequent resistance.
According to the 2019 report, in the US, more than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur each year, and more than 35000 people die. In addition to this, it also mentioned that 223,900 cases of Clostridoides difficile occurred in 2017, of which 12800 people died. The report did not include viruses or parasites
VISION
Being proactive
Supporting optimal animal and human health
Exploring ways to reduce overall use of antimicrobials
Using the drugs that prevent and treat disease by killing microscopic organisms in a responsible way
GOAL
to prevent the generation and spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Doing so will preserve the effectiveness of these drugs in animals and humans for years to come.
being to preserve human and animal health and the effectiveness of antimicrobial medications.
to implement a multidisciplinary approach in assembling a stewardship team to include an infectious disease physician, a clinical pharmacist with infectious diseases training, infection preventionist, and a close collaboration with the staff in the clinical microbiology laboratory
to prevent antimicrobial overuse, misuse and abuse.
to minimize the developme
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Professor Orazio Schillaci, Minister of Health, Italy
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Brain Dysfunction And Alcoholism
Introduction
• Liquor causes significant harm to the human brain.
• It is the most broadly utilized drug as far and wide as possible,
and legal in the United States, liquor remains the leading
reason for some preventable physical and emotional
sicknesses and deaths.
3. Brain Dysfunction And Alcoholism
How Alcohol Affects Brain?
• Drugs are differentiate in the way their chemicals target the
brain.
• Norepinephrine, a neurotransmitter, increases heart rate,
alertness, and happiness, and decreases blood circulation and
pain.
• Drugs that mimic Norepinephrine tell the brain to perform
those functions once there's not a physical ought
to do therefore, as is that the case once the brain and body
naturally communicate to accomplish one amongst those
functions.
4. Brain Dysfunction And Alcoholism
How Alcohol Affects Brain?
• GABA, another neurotransmitter, decreases anxiety,
alertness, memory, and muscle problem and persuade
sleepiness, which is mimicked by alcohol, barbiturates and
benzodiazepines.
• Serotonin is the neurotransmitter that increases happiness
and fullness, and decreases pain. Drugs like amphetamines,
cocaine, LSD, mushrooms, and SSRIs (pharmaceutical
antidepressants like Zoloft and Prozac).
• Alcohol falls into the depressant category because of its
resemblance to GABA, but also shows qualities of a stimulant
via norepinephrine and serotonin imitation.
5. Brain Dysfunction And Alcoholism
Physical Impairments
• When alcohol is affects on the user’s brain, there are
physical symptoms that damage has occurred. After just a
few drinks, you may feel the following things in yourself or
someone else who is drinking-
1) Difficulty
2) walking
3) Blurred vision
4) Slurred speech
5) Slowed reaction times
6) Impaired memory
6. Brain Dysfunction And Alcoholism
Psychological Impact
• Factors that influence psychological Impact of alcohol on the
Brain-
1) How much alcohol is consumed during each drinking episode.
2) How often a person drinks, meaning daily drinking versus
weekend binges.
3) The age at which he or she first began drinking.
4) How long he or she has been drinking.
5) The person’s current age, level of education, gender, genetic
background, and family history of alcoholism.
6) His or her general medical health status.
7. Brain Dysfunction And Alcoholism
The Progression To Addiction
• There are four stages on the road to addiction, and brain
damage can occur at any of the four levels of alcohol
consumption:
1) Experimentation or Social Use
2) Abuse
3) Physical Dependence
4) Addiction
8. Brain Dysfunction And Alcoholism
Affected Brain Parts
• There are three factors which is main parts of brain which is
affected by alcohol-
1) Prefrontal Cortex- it is responsible for decision making, rational
thought & aggressive behavior. Alcohol directly decreases the
activity in this area of brain, making it clear why people’s
reactions are much slower and why drinking can make
generally calm people violent when drunk.
2) Temporal Cortex- this region of the brain is home to the
hippocampus, the area that forms new memories. Blacking out
while drinking is from direct impairment of the temporal cortex.
9. Brain Dysfunction And Alcoholism
Affected Brain Parts
3) Cerebellum Damage – alcohol decreases energy consumption in
brain cerebellum, making it hard to walk a straight line or
operate heavy machinery while drunk.
10. Brain Dysfunction And Alcoholism
Treatment
• When a brain dysfunction disease has been diagnosed as the
direct result of alcohol consumption, the first step is to stop
drinking completely.
• After about a year of restraint, most people see improvement.
• Various forms of therapy, plus medical attention is needed to
start medicate the damage done to the brain.
• If you feel your alcohol use has caused brain dysfunction, an
assessment can gauge what level of care you need.
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