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Substance Abuse and Brain Injuries
Before you begin...
True or False?
- People who use alcohol or other drugs after
they have had a brain injury don’t recover as much.
- Brain injuries cause problems in balance, walking
or talking that gets worse when a person uses alcohol or other drugs.
- People who have had a brain injury often say
or do things without thinking first, a problem that is made worse by
using alcohol and other drugs.
- Brain injuries cause problems with thinking,
like concentration or memory, and using alcohol or other drugs makes
these problems worse.
- After brain injury, alcohol and other drugs
have a more powerful effect.
- People who have had a brain injury are more
likely to have times that they feel low or depressed and drinking alcohol
and getting high on other drugs makes this worse.
- After a brain injury, drinking alcohol or using
other drugs can cause a seizure.
- People who drink alcohol or use other drugs
after a brain injury are more likely to have another brain injury.
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