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.
Describe the effects of the lung tissue of breathing excessive oxygen. Tracheobronchitis and subs sternal chest pain w/in the first 12 hrs. Vital capacity and lung compliance decrease 12 to 30 hrs a state similar to bronchopneumonia develops. The alveoli and capillaries are damage resulting in interstitial edema. Type1cells destroyed hyaline memb form, pulm fibrosis & hypertension end stages.