Assessments, Signs, and Symptoms
Risk factors for substance use disorder
What are genetics and environment?
Most well-known self-help group
What is Alcoholics Anonymous?
Treatments for cannabis use disorder (at least one)
What are abstinence, short-term antianxiety medication, and antidepressants?
Qualities that nurses promote in patients with substance use disorder (At least one)
What are healthy coping skills, stress management, self-confidence, and self efficacy?
Respiratory depression, hypotension, bradycardia, pinpoint pupils, coma
Signs and symptoms of alcohol withdrawal delirium (at least two)
What are tachycardia, diaphoresis, fever, anxiety, insomnia, hypertension, delusions, and visual & tactile hallucinations?
Treatment for withdrawal seizures
What is IV diazepam?
Identifying triggers, stress management skills, and learning skills to regain abstinence in the event of use
What is relapse prevention?
Moods associated with stimulant intoxication (at least one positive and one negative)
What are elation, euphoria, sociability, anger, anxiety, and hypervigilance?
The "shakes", agitation, lack of appetite, N/V, insomnia, impaired cognition, and mild perceptual changes
What is alcohol withdrawal?
What is cognitive behavior therapy?
Brain structures associated with the reward pathway system.
What are the amygdala, the hippocampus, the prefrontal cortex, and nucleus accumbens?
Signs and symptoms of opioid withdrawal (at least 4)
What are tachycardia, hypertension, hyperthermia, insomnia, mydriasis, diaphoresis, increased respiratory rate, rhinorrhea, dilated pupils, anxiety, muscle spasms, abdominal cramps, N/V/D, and bone&muscle pain?
Additional screening tools for alcohol use disorder (at least one)
What are AUDIT, CAGE, CAGE-AID, and T-ACE?
Blocks the euphoric effects of opiate drugs and used to decrease the painful symptoms of opiate withdrawal
What is methadone?
Residential treatment in a substance-free communal/family environment that promotes independent growth
What are halfway houses?