PUBHLTH 147 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Binge Drinking, Isopropyl Alcohol, Blood Alcohol Content

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Public Health
• Course: PUBHLTH 147
• Professor: Anamara Ritt- Olson

Document Summary

Alcohol as a sedative drug: central nervous system sedative drug, decreases alertness, increases fatigue, and slows cognitive processing, low doses, stimulation and decreases inhibition, high doses, sedative effects, alcohol that is consumed is ethanol. Isopropyl alcohol: paint solvent, toxic, methanol, antifreeze, toxic. Alcohol for medical uses: stimulates appetite (older people, cancer patients, solvent in cough syrup, can be dehydrated and injected to help with nerve pain, used as anti-bacterial (e. g. , mouthwash, skin cleanser) Routes of administration: oral, most common, pass through stomach so absorption is slowed and diluted by food, from stomach to small intestine to bloodstream to brain. Prevalence: united states, (cid:1009)(cid:1006)% of a(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a(cid:374)"s (cid:894)(cid:1005)(cid:1006) years old+(cid:895) report ha(cid:448)i(cid:374)g (cid:272)o(cid:374)su(cid:373)ed al(cid:272)ohol i(cid:374) past. Increases blood flow to skin (can cause hypothermia: diuretic (dehydration) Interferes with sleep and suppresses rem sleep: blackout failure to remember events that took place while drinking even when there is no loss of consciousness.