NSG 322 TOPIC 10 SUBSTANCE ABUSE
• Alcoholic cardiomyopathy
Answer: Long term heavy drinking weakens the heart muscle, causing a condition called
alcoholic cardiomyopathy
. A weakened heart droops and stretches and cannot contract effectively. As a result,it cannot
pump enough blood to sufficiently nourish the organs.
• Arrhythmias
Answer: both binge drinking and long term drinking can affect how quicklya heart beats. The
heart depends on an internal pacemaker system to keep it pumping consistently at the right
speed.
Alcohol disturbs this system and causes the heart to beat too rapidly or irregularly
• Strokes
Answer: Recent studies show that people who binge drink are about 56 percentmore likely than
people who never binge drink to suffer an ischemic stroke over 10years
• Wernicke's encephalopathy
Answer: A brain disorder caused by thiamine deficiency
Confusion, abnormal eye movement, and unsteady gait
• Korsakoff's psychosis
Answer:
Chronic condition
Consequence of untreated
Wernicke's encephalopathy
inability to learn new information, short term and long term memory problems
• Comorbid medical issues with alcoholism
Answer:
Wernicke's encephalopathy
Korsakoff's psychosis
Esophagitis
Pancreatitis
Alcohol induced hepatitis
, Fetal alcohol syndrome
• Late effects of alcohol
Answer:
Cirrhosis
Jaundice
Esophageal varices
Ascites
Hepatomegaly
Splenomegaly
Edema
Spider angiomas
Anemia/thrombocytopenia
Coagulation disordersperipheral neuropathy
• Wernicke's Korsakoff Syndrome
Answer: thiamine B1 deficiency
Treatment (thiamine for B1 replacement, magnesium sulfate, folic acid and multivitamin)
• Blood alcohol level
Answer: determined level of intoxication and tolerance
• Substance =
Answer: Mind altering drug
• Opioids are
Answer: medications that relieve pain
they reduce the intensity of the pain signals reaching the brain and affect those brainareas
controlling emotion
• Examples of opioids
Answer:
Hydrocodone
Oxycodone
Hydromorphone
Morphine
Codeine
• The 4 Cs of addiction
Answer:
Compulsive behavior (finding or taking the substance)
• Alcoholic cardiomyopathy
Answer: Long term heavy drinking weakens the heart muscle, causing a condition called
alcoholic cardiomyopathy
. A weakened heart droops and stretches and cannot contract effectively. As a result,it cannot
pump enough blood to sufficiently nourish the organs.
• Arrhythmias
Answer: both binge drinking and long term drinking can affect how quicklya heart beats. The
heart depends on an internal pacemaker system to keep it pumping consistently at the right
speed.
Alcohol disturbs this system and causes the heart to beat too rapidly or irregularly
• Strokes
Answer: Recent studies show that people who binge drink are about 56 percentmore likely than
people who never binge drink to suffer an ischemic stroke over 10years
• Wernicke's encephalopathy
Answer: A brain disorder caused by thiamine deficiency
Confusion, abnormal eye movement, and unsteady gait
• Korsakoff's psychosis
Answer:
Chronic condition
Consequence of untreated
Wernicke's encephalopathy
inability to learn new information, short term and long term memory problems
• Comorbid medical issues with alcoholism
Answer:
Wernicke's encephalopathy
Korsakoff's psychosis
Esophagitis
Pancreatitis
Alcohol induced hepatitis
, Fetal alcohol syndrome
• Late effects of alcohol
Answer:
Cirrhosis
Jaundice
Esophageal varices
Ascites
Hepatomegaly
Splenomegaly
Edema
Spider angiomas
Anemia/thrombocytopenia
Coagulation disordersperipheral neuropathy
• Wernicke's Korsakoff Syndrome
Answer: thiamine B1 deficiency
Treatment (thiamine for B1 replacement, magnesium sulfate, folic acid and multivitamin)
• Blood alcohol level
Answer: determined level of intoxication and tolerance
• Substance =
Answer: Mind altering drug
• Opioids are
Answer: medications that relieve pain
they reduce the intensity of the pain signals reaching the brain and affect those brainareas
controlling emotion
• Examples of opioids
Answer:
Hydrocodone
Oxycodone
Hydromorphone
Morphine
Codeine
• The 4 Cs of addiction
Answer:
Compulsive behavior (finding or taking the substance)
