Addiction is defined as a chronic, relapsing brain disease that is characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use, despite harmful consequences.â  It is considered a brain disease because drugs change the brainâthey change its structure and how it works.. Volkow and H. Schelbert. Addiction is a lot like other diseases, such as heart disease. Both disrupt the normal, healthy functioning of the underlying organ, have serious harmful consequences, and are preventable and treatable, but if left untreated, can last a lifetime.
What are the possible causes of pulmonary consolidation? Answer: Pulmonary consolidation is a term used in olden days for lobar pneumonia. Normally the lungs are filled with air, and they are spongy but in condition like pneumonia, the lung space gets filled up by liquid and pus and the debris of the dead tissues instead of gas.
1 In other type of aspiration pneumonia, there is pneumonic consolidation in which there is destruction of lung parenchyma by inflammatory process. 2  Usually caused by staphylococcus aureus or klebsiella pneumoniae. 3  These are in effect, primary bacterial pneumonias with pulmonary suppuration.