Clinical Summary and Flow Chart Substance Abuse History: The patient’s is a thirty eight year old single woman. Her drug of choice is alcohol. She had her first drink at age 13 at which time she would sneak drinks at family gatherings and sometimes on the weekends with friends. At age 18 she started to drink more frequently and greater amounts‚ about 8-10 drinks‚ on each occasion. At times she would pass out. She noticed her drinking becoming a problem around the age of 28. She was drinking
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Alcohol Abuse By: Rian Geraldine S. Alberto Alcohol • • • • Alcohol is a drink containing ethanol It is a lipid that is highly water soluble A psychoactive drug that has a depressant effect. Distribution: Ethanol is distributed equally in all body tissue according to water content. • Metabolism: A healthy body can metabolize 15ml of alcohol/hour • Alcohol is metabolized by the liver but 10% is excreted unchanged in the breath‚ sweat and the urine Metabolism of alcohol Alcohol Aldehyde
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I would like to stop drinking soda because it has an unhealthy effect on my health. It has gotten to a point where I need more than a soda each day and I truly believe that I have become dependent to it. I believe the benefits of cutting soda from my diet would be exponential. By replacing soda with water and tea I will have a decreased amount of sugar intake and possibly more energy overall. The only downside is that I will miss my daily ritual of an ice cold Dr. Pepper. I have already lowered my
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Cons 1. Health risks Immediate Effects of Marijuana1 • loss of restlessness • excitement • hallucinations‚ paranoia‚ psychotic episodes • impaired coordination • impaired motor ability • mood swings • increased appetite • impaired ability. Long Term Effects of Marijuana:1 • lung cancer • chronic bronchitis • energy loss • slow confused thinking • apathy • and blood vessel blockage. • Use by adolescents can disrupt emotional development‚ delay puberty‚ and can delay the
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Kyle Youells Mr. Powers English 101 (BC3) Essay #1 Word Count: 842 Lost to Addiction: Strengths Through Struggle On November 9‚ 2010‚ my best friend was pronounced dead due to asphyxiation caused by a drug overdose. Desmond Miller Harris was one of the thousands of people in the United States who died in the year 2010 from a drug overdose. Depending on the person and the situation‚ losing a loved one to drugs can impact people in several different
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The Dangers of Withdrawal and Relapse It might seem counterintuitive‚ but the weeks and months immediately after you leave a detox and rehabilitation facility or inpatient treatment program can be the most dangerous time during the recovery process. During this time period‚ you are at a higher risk of relapsing. After leaving a rehab program‚ you may still crave the drugs or alcohol that were once such an importance part of your life. In fact‚ it can take up to a year for your brain to regain normal
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Adriannah Baker Professor Washburn English 101- College Writing 19 October 2014 Addiction in the Homeland When Deborah Sontag wrote the article “Heroin’s Small-Town Toll‚ and a Mother’s Pain” it wasn’t to scare or frighten the public. What she wrote were facts and intimate details of a family’s pain and heartache over what happened to the person they loved who had an addiction she couldn’t beat. Deborah wrote this article with the intention of letting everyone know that heroin is a very serious
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STUDENT DETAILS ACAP Student ID: 226155 Name: Louise Butler Course: Diploma of Counselling ASSESSMENT DETAILS Unit/Module: Counselling Interview Skills Educator: Leanne Chapman Assessment Name: Assessment 2‚ Part B Assessment Number: 2 Term & Year: Term 3‚ 2014 Word Count: 1200-1500 DECLARATION I declare that this assessment is my own work‚ based on my own personal research/study . I also declare that this assessment‚ nor parts of it‚ has not been previously submitted
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Nursing has always been a part of my future that was definite. There was never any doubt that “RN” would trail behind my name one day. For a little over a year now‚ I have been able to call myself MA‚ RN‚ BSN. This is an honor and a privilege that I never cease to forget. Every day I go to work knowing that anything is possible and my job is to expect the unexpected. In the short time I have been in this position‚ I have had many unique and eye opening encounters with a cast of characters‚ which
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Benzodiazepine Long-Term Use and Its Cognitive Effects on Memory In the 1960’s the drug industry in the United States changed dramatically with the introduction of a new category of drugs called benzodiazepines. Since the dawn of time anxiety has been an issue with people‚ but before the introduction of benzodiazepines there were much different treatments for anxiety problems. In ancient Greece a cure for men would be to engage in sexual intercourse‚ which would release the excess stored
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