Opioids
The opioid responsible for the most deaths that is 50-100 times more potent than morphine.
What is Fentanyl?
True/False Alcohol withdrawal can be deadly?
What is true?
This stimulant is highly addictive and can cause psychosis?
What is methamphetamine?
These are the most frequently abused drugs in this category.
What are benzodiazepines and barbituates?
This is when a person drinks copious amounts and has no recollection of events that occured during intoxication.
What are apathy, lethargy, listlessness, constricted pupils, psychomotor retardation, agitation, slurred speech, drowsiness, impaired judgement, attention, and memory?
Mild alcohol withdrawal symptoms include
The stimulants cause what to happen in the CNS
What is dual diagnosis?
What is coma, respiratory depression, unconsciousness, and death?
The tool that can be used to assess alcohol withdrawal
What is the CIWA scale?
Stimulants can be used to clinincally treat which disorders
What is ADHD?
This drug should not be used with benzodiazepines and barbiturates
What is alcohol?
What is Hazelden model, 12 step program. support groups, abstinence, and sober relationships?
This is an opioid antagonist?
What is Naloxone/Narcan??
This is the treatment for alcohol overdose
What is gastric lavage or diaylisis?
The primary withdrawal symptom for stimulants
What is dysphoria or crashing?
Which drug are intoxication symptoms similar to?
This is the need for more substance to obtain desired effects
What is tolerance?
Withdrawal symptoms include.
This is the day that withdrawal typically peaks
What is the 2nd day?
Stimulants produce what physiological symptoms
What is tachycardia, elevated BP, dilated pupils, sweating or chills, nausea, chest pain, confusion, cardiac dysrhythmias?
This form of withdrawal is important for barbiturates?
What is tapering?
The problems associated with addiction that cause tolerance, withdrawal, and inability to stop using
Dependance