PSYCH-230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: American Civil War, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Sumer
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Leading cause of intellectual disability heavy alcohol consumption during pregnancy. Cranial, facial, and limb anomalies are produced. Moderate use of alcohol (1 to 2 drinks per day for women, 2 to 4 drinks for men) is linked to lower risk of heart attacks, strokes, as well as lower death rates overall. Higher doses of alcohol are associated with higher mortality rates. Better to direct health promotion efforts towards finding safer ways of achieving the health benefits than by encouraging alcohol consumption e. g. quitting smoking, lowering dietary intake of fat and cholesterol, and exercising more regularly) Narcotics used medically for pain relief but that have strong addictive potential. Includes both naturally occurring opiates (morphine, heroin, codeine) derived from the juice of the poppy plant and synthetic drugs that have opiate like effects. The ancient sumerians named the poppy plant opium, meaning plant of joy .
