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Understanding Alcoholism: A Quiz on Its Effects and Implications

This quiz aims to test your knowledge about alcoholism, its effects, and related health implications. Answer the questions to assess your understanding of this critical public health issue.

#Alcoholism #Public Health #Mental Health #Addiction #Screening Tests #Legal Consequences

1 This can contribute to a loss of ________ and even lead to jail.

2 The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) is a screening questionnaire developed by the ________.

3 [25] ________, confusion and organic brain syndrome may be induced by chronic alcohol abuse which can lead to a misdiagnosis of major mental health disorders such as schizophrenia.

4 An alcoholic's behavior and mental impairment while drunk can profoundly impact those surrounding them and lead to isolation from family and friends, possibly leading to marital conflict and ________, or contributing to domestic violence.

5 There are reliable tests for the actual use of alcohol, one common test being that of ________ (BAC).

6 Drinking at inappropriate times, and behavior caused by reduced judgment, can lead to legal consequences, such as criminal charges for ________[39] or public disorder, or civil penalties for tortious behavior.

7 ________ and anxiety, anhedonia) may continue as part of a post withdrawal syndrome gradually improving with abstinence for a year or more.

8 ________ (movie, 1945)

9 What does the following picture show?  1904 advertisement describing alcoholism as a disease.   Total recorded yearly alcohol per capita consumption (15+), in litres of pure alcohol[115]   1904 advertisement describing alcoholism as a disease.   Some of the possible long-term effects of ethanol an individual may develop. Additionally, in pregnant women, alcohol can cause fetal alcohol syndrome.

10 With repeated heavy consumption of alcohol, these receptors are desensitized and reduced in number, resulting in tolerance and ________.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the John R. Oughton House was used to house patients from the Keeley Institute, where over 400,000 people were treated for alcoholism with injections of "bichloride of gold" from 1879 to 1930.
  • the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants aimed to prevent girls in London from becoming prostitutes, criminals and alcoholics by training them as domestic servants.
  • in 1983, Yıldırım Aktuna, a neuropsychiatrist and later a politician, founded Turkey’s first alcohol and drug rehabilitation center at the country's largest psychiatric hospital in Istanbul.
  • All in the Mind, the debut novel by former British government Director of Communications Alastair Campbell, drew on his experiences of depression and alcoholism.
  • Richard Peabody was the first authority to proclaim that there was no cure for alcoholism, and his best-selling book, The Common Sense of Drinking, was a major influence on A.A. founder Bill W..
  • Thomas Bancroft's Times out of Tune (1658) includes verses against whoring, gluttony, alcoholism, hedonism, lying, pride in clothing, betrayal, ambition, cowardice, and the abuse of poetry.
  • Roman Catholic priests afflicted with alcoholism or other ailments can use unfermented grape juice, known as mustum, in place of sacramental wine during the Eucharist.
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