Alcohol – 2

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2 Alcohol – 2

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1. Heavy alcohol consumption increases the risk of pharyngeal carcinoma.
2. Convictions for driving with blood level over 80 mg/L are strongly suggestive of alcohol dependence.
3. Binge drinking is more harmful than regular drinking.
4. Alcoholic liver disease is more common in bus conductors than in the general population.
5. Chronic alcohol intake enhances GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)-benzodiazepine receptor function.
6. The microsomal ethanol oxidizing system metabolizes only 5–10% of the alcohol consumed.
7. Cloninger’s type 1 alcoholism is predominantly genetically determined.
8. Acute alcohol intoxication elevates gamma glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT) levels.
9. In the EEG (electroencephalogram), there is a pattern associated with alcohol use.
10. Withdrawal delirium is an essential feature of alcohol dependence syndrome.
11. Auditory hallucinations occur in alcohol withdrawal.
12. In delirium tremens, cogwheel rigidity may suggest nicotinic acid deficiency.
13. Approximately 10% of chronic heavy drinkers develop seizures.
14. Alcoholic hallucinosis characteristically occurs when alcohol intake is reduced.
15. Confabulation is a feature of Korsakoff’s psychosis.
16. In Korsakoff’s psychosis, semantic memory is impaired.
17. Increased fast activity in the EEG is a characteristic feature of hepatic encephalopathy.
18. 80% of survivors of Wernicke’s encephalopathy suffer from Korsakoff’s syndrome.
19. In chronic alcoholism suicide risk is increased only in the depressed.
20.The Minnesota model of treatment for alcoholism recommends strict daily limits on alcohol consumption rather than abstinence.
21. Acamprosate is an NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartic acid) antagonist.
22. Alcohol detoxification cannot usually be done at home in a 65-year-old man.
23. Disulfiram can cause peripheral neuritis.
24. In the management of alcoholism, group therapy is more effective than individual therapy.
25. Marchiafava–Bignami syndrome is associated with demyelination of the corpus callosum.