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Drug and Alcohol Safety Formula for a Balanced Life

Learn the key guidelines for responsible drug and alcohol consumption, how drugs work in the body, their effects, and routes of administration. Understand drug classifications, metabolism, side effects, and contraindications to make informed choices.

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Drug and Alcohol Safety Formula for a Balanced Life

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  1. Chapter 16/18 Drugs/Alcohol

  2. Formula to Follow • No more 3drinks/occasion • No more than 2/wk • Drink on full stomach • Metabolize 1 drink/hour

  3. Bodies Defense • Taste bad • Throw up • Pass out

  4. Drug Use • Quick fix • Headache, stomach ache, fatigue, mood • Need to change lifestyle

  5. Drugs Defined • Substance alters biological process • Increase, decrease, start, or stop body process • Classified-biological effect • Diuretic, analgesic, stimulant

  6. How They Work • Drugs hook to cell protein receptors • Resemble natural chemical • Prevent or increase release neurotransmitters

  7. Side Effects • Unintended action • Drug binds to several cells

  8. Contraindication • Medical reason not to take a drug • Pregnant, age, taking another drug

  9. Route Administration • Ingest • Inhale • Inject • absorb

  10. Metabolism • Liver- destroys • Kidney/lungs-eliminate

  11. Effectiveness • Therapeutic Index- how safe • Effective dose(ED50)- effective in 50% • Lethal dose(LD50)- lethal dose in 50% • LD50/ED50 • Want large difference

  12. Legal Use • Prescription= $100 billion/yr • Non-prescription=$12 billion/yr • Most sold=psychoactive drugs • Sleeping, mood altering

  13. Printed Advertisement • Heavy regulated • Effectiveness, side effects, precaution, contraindications • TV and Internet • Little regulated

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