Not Anymore Training~ Alchohol And Other Drugs

11 September 2022
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How Alchohol Affects Your GPA
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•Attendance •Studying
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Relationship between GPA and Drinking
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• A students) • C students) drinks 2X • D/F students) drinks 3X
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Higher amount of Drug Intake (Adderall, marijuana) =
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less studying time/lower gpa/ more likely to drop out
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Why Alchohol Affects your Brain More (under 25)
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less developed
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How Alchohol Affects your Brain
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•people under age of 25 are less likely to feel drunk= excessive drinking •damaged prefrontal lobe •reduce amounts of myelin •damages hippocampus (10% reduction for excessive drinking) -> can lead to blackouts
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prefrontal lobe
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portion of the frontal cortex involved in higher-order thinking, such as memory, moral reasoning, and planning
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Myelin
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A layer of fatty tissue segmentally encasing the fibers of many neurons; enables vastly greater transmission speed of neural impulses as the impulse hops from one node to the next.
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hippocampus
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A neural center located in the limbic system that helps process explicit memories for storage
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Blackout
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A period of time that an intoxicated person cannot recall
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atypical neural profiles
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drug user's brains are structured differently than non user's brains
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Drugs Impact (prescribed or not)
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•prefrontal cortex •hippocampus •amygdala •cerebellum •white matter •work memory
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For traditional college-age people (18-25), consuming moderate or high amounts of alcohol have what, if any effect, on the parts of the brain that involve decision making ?
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permanent change
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Statistics
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• 1 in 5 students who didn't drink in high school start drinking in college • Over 1 in 5 college students are nondrinkers • 2% of peers didn't drink in the last 30 days • 1% of peers drank everyday • 97% of peers have used the following tactics to avoid drinking (avoid drinking games, setting max number of drinks to advance, let friend know they had enough, pacing drinks to 1 or few an hour). • 18% of peers smoke weed in the last month •Percentage of Disease & Injury attributed to Alchohol: 10% •How Many College Students die from Alchohol-related causes and drunk driving: 1,800 •How Many are Injured while under the Influence: 600,000 •How Many student are assaulted by someone by someone who's bem drinking: 650,000 •Percentage of College Grads who Black Out: 25% - 50% •Percentage of women having unprotected sex as a result of drinking: 15% (men- 18%) •40,000 people die from drug use each year •38% of people who died in car accidents were on drugs •1.4 million went to the er for misuse/abuse of prescription drugs --> cocaine: involved in 505,000 visits --> marijuana: involved in 455,000 visits --> heroin: involved in 258,000 visits --> stimulants: over 159,000 er visits •30,000 students are treating with alcohol poisoning each year •alcohol poisoning kills 50 students every year •68% of college students take care of a drunk friend •between 1 and 4 and 1 and 5 students do not drink at all
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Alchohol Poising Symptoms
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confusion, uncautiouness, no response to pain, irregular/slow breathing, vomiting, low body temperature
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how to help someone who is drunk
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•call 911 •call for hel •lie on side