HSS 1101 Lecture 6: HSS 1101 D - Lecture #6 - Alcohol, Caffeine and Tobacco Part I
2 Feb 2018
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Hss 1101 d - lecture #6 - alcohol, caffeine and tobacco part i. Dependency: strong, uncontrollable, desire to use the drugs, Withdrawal: the behaviours observed once the drug is purged from the body. Tolerance: the way the body adapts to the repeated presence of a drug, meaning that higher doses are needed to maintain the same effect. Adh: alcohol de-hydrogenase: defence against alcohol in our system. Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (fasd): the umbrella term for all other fetal alcohol disorders. In order of most popular in this country: beer, wine then spirits: post-secondary students, 90 % of students drink alcohol, most used, misused, and abused drug in the world, binge drinking = 2-hour period. The maximum drinks you can have in that period is 4 for women, 5 more men. More on this below: serving sizes for common alcoholic beverages. Physiology and behaviours created by consuming alcohol: behavioural effects, blood alcohol concentration (bac, alcohol (in grams) per 100ml of blood.
