1. Pedro Ruiz
Gallo
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
SUBJECT:
MEDICAL
ENGLISH
PROFESSOR:

2. GROUP 8:
Burga Cueva Jonatan
Cabanillas Ventura Jorge
Chapoñán Bances Cristhian
Torres Tafur Karina
Zulueta Santacruz Jaroslav
Zúñiga Callacna Gustavo

4. Is a chronic (long-term) disease
People are obsessed with alcohol and cannot
control how much they consume.
even
If it is causing serious problems at home,
work and financially

5. ALCOHOL
ABUSE
Refers to people who do not display the
characteristics of alcoholism but still have a
problem with ALCOHOL
These people are not as dependent on alcohol as
an alcoholic is.
They have not completely lost their control
over its consumption

6. CAUSES OF the exact cause of alcoholism is unknown
ALCOHOLISM
Research has shown increasing evidence that
susceptibility to it may be inherited
This medical condition rises significantly in families with
relatives who are dependent on alcohol
Additional risk factors
Schizophrenia, depression, or anxiety disorders.
Poverty, social isolation, and shyness may also be risk
factors.

8. Continue to drink even affected are health,
work or family.
Drinking alone
they try to hide the alcohol consumption

9. They become violent when they drink.
Become hostile when asked about
drinking.
don't take a part in
activities at alcohol
Missing work or school or
have a decrease in
performance due to
drinking.

10. They do not care or are ignorant of how they
are dressed or if they are clean.
They need drinking more and more
Make excuses for drinking.

11. withdrawal symptoms when you stop
drinking. These include upset
stomach, sweating, shakiness, and anxiety.

13. HEART
KIDNEY BRAIN
ON
has SMALL
LIVER INTESTINE
causes
Affects to
HEART

14. PHYSICAL CONSEQUENCES
Nervous system
 Low attetion
 Alteration of language and
memory.
 injury to the nerve cells
Digestive system
In LIVER: Cirrhosis, Steatosis or alcoholic
hepatitis.
Alcohol is the main cause of:
• acute pancreatitis
• chronic pancreatitis.

15. immune system
Low defenses, so it’s easier to
get sick.
Reproductive
system
impotence in men and
infertility in women.

16. During pregnancy
ALCOHOL causes the FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME:
• Low weight
• craniofacial malformations
• learning disorders.

17. PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS
which leads to
DEPRESSION SUICIDE
PSYCHOSIS
HALLUCINATIONS
DEMENTIA

18. SOCIAL PROBLEMS
which leads to
Poor job performance Unemployment
Social rejection
TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
(50% of them)

19. FAMILY PROBLEMS
Family violence
Aggressiveness
Family Dysfunction

21. antidipsotropicos drugs or aversive
interfere with alcohol
metabolism
disulfiram
inhibit the action of the
aldehidodeshidrogensa
lead to increased plasma
levels of acetaldehyde
responsible for the
symptomatology of
tachycardia, hypotension, f
calcium lushing, headache, etc.
cyanamide

22. ANTI CRAVING

23. GABAERGIC DRUGS AND GLUTAMATE
ACTION
tiapride • Antipsychotic low power
hydroxybutyric
acid
• is a derivative of the amino acid taurine. Relieves
withdrawal symptoms conditioned by environmental
Acamprosate stimuli.

24. OPIOID ANTAGONIST
• was the first drug that was given to a specific effect on the
Naltrexoma desire to drink and alcohol treatment. Reduces the tendency to
relapse after a timely consumption.
NALMEFENE

25. Dopaminergic and
serotonergic drugs
long-acting dopamine
agonist
bromocript Ondanset
ine ron
Buspirone