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Time: 6 hours
Level: Introductory
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 Introduction Resource- This unit describes some of the effects of drinking alcohol. It looks at alcohol's journey through the body and its effect on the liver. It also discusses some possible beneficial effects. This is an important...
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| | 1 How alcohol causes short- and long-term harmful effects
- 1.1 The biological effects of ethanol Resource
- This section investigates some of the harmful effects that a high level of blood-ethanol can have on the body: both short-term problems such as ‘hangover’, and long-term health problems that are associated...
- 1.2 Hangovers Resource
- ‘Beer is the reason I get up every afternoon.’
- 1.3 Long-term problems from chronic alcoholism Resource
- Chronic alcoholism, the excessive and habitual consumption of alcohol, results in many health problems. Three are discussed here – the damage caused to the drinker's liver and to the nervous system, and...
- 1.4 Nervous-system damage Resource
- Chronic consumption of high levels of alcohol can cause irreversible damage to the nervous system. The majority of people with chronic alcoholism have some degree of dementia, which is a general loss of...
- 1.5 Fetal alcohol syndrome Resource
- There are a range of disorders associated with maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy which are collectively known as fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, FASDs. The best characterised is fetal alcohol...
- 1.6 Treatment Resource
- There is at the moment no known cure for alcoholism. Both psychological and drug treatments are used in treating excessive alcohol intake (Buonopane and Petrakis, 2005). The plethora of different types...
- Summary Resource
- The main acute effects of ethanol are on the nervous system, causing characteristic changes in behaviour and judgement. There are particular issues with regard to driving, with different countries setting...
- Revision questions Resource
- Drinking alcohol produces a complex set of effects on a number of body systems.
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