Alcohol withdrawal syndrome

carbon, breaking the C=O bond and creating a new C-H bond. When the reduction occurs, the hydride transfer will occur on the less hindered side of the carbonyl group. This addition will usually create the more hindered alcohol but will generally create a mixture of two possible alcohols, the endo product and the exo product. In this case, the exo product will be the major product, which would be isoborneol and the endo product will be the minor product, which would be borneol.…

Alcohol has many different effects. Most of these are negative effects. Many people drink alcohol but do not realize just how dangerous the effects can be. Many adults or kids turn to alcohol when times get tough to try and make it through, or they look at a night of drinking as an amazing way to have fun and party, but there are serious consequences. Using alcohol and drugs can affect a person in many different ways. Three of the ways someone can be affected is psychologically, mentally, and…

The reduction of this ketone produces secondary alcohols. Sodium borohydride is often used in this process because it reacts more rapidly with the carbonyl group than with the solvent. In this experiment, the reduction of 9-fluorenone using sodium borohydride to give 9-fluorenol will be examined. This…

an IR spectrum was taken after distillation. Both the 1H NMR and IR spectra support the conclusion that the product is 2-phenyl-2-butanol. The crude and distilled spectra show alcohol at approximately the same location; however, the peak significantly decreases in size. The IR spectra also shows a definitive alcohol peak. Due…

What is alcoholism? It's a very serious diseases that heavy alcohol drinkers have when they drink for so many years. They spend at least 24 billion dollars each year.They at least buy beer 4-6 times a day depending on how much they consume. Little do they know all the side effects that they can get by consuming too much alcohol. You don’t need alcohol to have fun. Drinking heavily may cause your brain to shrink. “If you drink heavily for a long time, booze can affect how your brain looks and…

nurture)? If both parents have alcoholism, it does not necessarily mean that their children will have alcoholism. Inherited biochemistry affects alcohol metabolism. There is no specific gene for alcoholism. However, the alleles that make alcoholism have been identified on every chromosome except the Y. Each individual is different, they're reaction to alcohol may be different from others. Both parents metabolism may not allow them to hold their liquor. As opposed to their children, who’s…

Alcohol is a damping substance shows in the fact the slowdown of the body 's functions. Substance withholds the mind and prevents it from being able to think basically. Some of the teenagers drink alcoholic to have fun or to feel happy. On the other hand, teenagers drink to copy a family member or friend. The legal drinking age in the United States of America is twenty-one now. The government should raise the legal drinking age to twenty-five years; because of the harmful effects on the brain,…

Interesting enough, when you don’t have a disease, it is almost impossible to understand it. Step One in The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous reads, “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol- that our lives had become unmanageable.” (Alcoholics Anonymous) My friend moved to Nashville about a year ago, and through a series of unfortunate events involving love and loss, she began a downhill spiral of drinking through her pain in hopes to forget events of her past. When I asked about her…

Alcohol consumption is the third leading actual cause of death in the United States. This actual cause of death leads to some of the leading deaths in the United States such as heart disease, cancer, and others. The main substance in alcohol that causes intoxication is ethanol. This ethanol and other substances found in alcohol acts as a depressant. A depressant means to negatively affect the functions of ones central nervous system. It is now the question that everyone would ask, why would…

In the US, the prohibition era was a period when there was a nationwide ban on consumption, production, and transportation of alcohol and other alcoholic products and goods. The era was between the years 1920 and early 1930s (Nishi 23). During this period, the sale of alcohol was prohibited since alcohol had been observed in the past to have numerous effects on the people and the economy of the nation in general. The movement was mainly propagated by the rural Protestants who had observed the…