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Given to reverse the effects of opioids.
What is narcan?
In 41 states, this is the legal blood alcohol limit for driving a motor vehicle.
What is 0.08%?
During this stage, a person needs to use a substance just to feel "normal."
What is the middle stage?
As few as 2 drinks per day can cause this in an infant.
What is fetal alcohol syndrome?
This is a 12 step program for alcoholics
What is alcoholics anonymous?
This is also called "date rape drug"
What is Rohypnol?
Nurses use this to help ensure the patient will give honest answers to assessment questions.
What is a nonjudgmental attitude?
During this stage, people can recover on their own.
What is the early stage?
S/S include sweating, HTN, and tremors that occur 6-48 hours after cessation of alcohol.
What is alcohol withdrawal syndrome?
Age of onset that is most predicative of alcohol addiction.
What is 14 or younger?
Drug given to encourage alcohol abstinence that causes tachycardia, dyspnea, and confusion if alcohol is ingested.
What is Antebuse?
This is how long after the cessation of consuming alcohol, withdrawal symptoms appear.
What is 6 hours?
During this stage, people cannot recover without treatment.
What is the late stage?
Acute psychotic reaction resulting from excessive alcohol consumption over a long period. The risk of death is 15% even with treatment.
What are delirium tremens?
The number of deaths per year that are related to alcohol consumption?
What is 88,000?
What is methadone?
This is the focus during the rehabilitation phase.
Excessive use of a substance, uncontrollable consumption, psychological disturbances are criteria for this.
What is addiction?
What is Korsakoff psychosis?
Use of this drug causes bruxism. Patients can be given a pacifier to help decrease the damage of bruxism.
What is ecstasy/MDMA?
What are amphetamines/meth?
This drug causes flashbacks.
What is LSD?
During this stage, very few people can recover without treatment.
What is the middle stage?
What is Wernicke Encephalopathy?
A nurse that is in this program will be allowed to work with supervision.
What is a peer assistance program?