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    This document discusses substance abuse disorder and its management. It identifies common substances abused like tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and various drugs. Signs of substance abuse disorder include declining grades, mood changes, giving up activities, and legal or work problems. Treatment involves cognitive behavioral therapy, family therapy, and medications like buprenorphine, methadone, and naltrexone. For alcohol withdrawal, nursing care focuses on monitoring, a safe environment, explaining treatment, and administering medications to prevent seizures. Education emphasizes the effects of treatment and abstaining from substances.

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    Substance Abuse Disorder

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    This document discusses substance abuse disorder and its management. It identifies common substances abused like tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and various drugs. Signs of substance abuse disorder include declining grades, mood changes, giving up activities, and legal or work problems. Treatment involves cognitive behavioral therapy, family therapy, and medications like buprenorphine, methadone, and naltrexone. For alcohol withdrawal, nursing care focuses on monitoring, a safe environment, explaining treatment, and administering medications to prevent seizures. Education emphasizes the effects of treatment and abstaining from substances.

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    This document discusses substance abuse disorder and its management. It identifies common substances abused like tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and various drugs. Signs of substance abuse disorder include declining grades, mood changes, giving up activities, and legal or work problems. Treatment involves cognitive behavioral therapy, family therapy, and medications like buprenorphine, methadone, and naltrexone. For alcohol withdrawal, nursing care focuses on monitoring, a safe environment, explaining treatment, and administering medications to prevent seizures. Education emphasizes the effects of treatment and abstaining from substances.

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    Substance Abuse Disorder

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    This document discusses substance abuse disorder and its management. It identifies common substances abused like tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and various drugs. Signs of substance abuse disorder include declining grades, mood changes, giving up activities, and legal or work problems. Treatment involves cognitive behavioral therapy, family therapy, and medications like buprenorphine, methadone, and naltrexone. For alcohol withdrawal, nursing care focuses on monitoring, a safe environment, explaining treatment, and administering medications to prevent seizures. Education emphasizes the effects of treatment and abstaining from substances.

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    The key takeaways are that substance abuse is a patterned use of a substance for mood altering purposes and some commonly abused substances include tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, heroin, cocaine and steroids. Signs and symptoms include declining grades, mood changes, giving up activities and legal troubles.

    Some signs and symptoms of substance abuse include declining grades, aggressiveness, mood changes, giving up activities, disappearing money or valuables, selfish behavior, regular intoxication, avoiding others to use substances, and legal or work/school troubles.

    Common treatments for substance abuse include cognitive behavioral therapy, family therapy, medications like buprenorphine, methadone, disulfiram and naltrexone, and treating any underlying psychiatric illnesses. Medications are approved to treat substance abuse.

    SUBSTANCE ABUSE DISORDER

    R.ABINAYA DEPT. OF PSYCHIATRIC

    SREE BALAJI COLLEGE OF NURSING


    SUBSTANCE ABUSE DISORDER
    Substance abuse is a patterned use of a substance in which the user
    consumes the substance for mood altering purpose.

    Substance Abused

    − Tobacco
    − Alcohol
    − Marijuana
    − Heroin
    − Cocaine
    − Steroids
    − Club drugs
    a. Methylene dioxy methamphetamine
    b. Gamma hydroxybutyrate
    c. Ketamine

    Signs and Symptoms

    − Declining grades
    − Aggressiveness and irritability
    − Significant change in mood or behavior
    − Giving up past activities such as sports and hanging out with new
    friends
    − Disappearing money or valuables
    − Sounding selfish and not caring about others
    − Getting drunk or high on drugs on a regular basis
    − Avoiding friends and family to get drunk
    − Getting in trouble with law
    − Suspension or other problems at work place or at school.
    Management

    1. Cognitive behavioral therapy and family therapy


    These are the most important part of the treatment.
    2. Medication
    Number of medications are approved for the treatment of substance
    abuse, these include
    − Buprenorphine
    − Methadone
    − Disulfiram
    − Naltrexone
    3. Treatment of underlying psychiatric illness if present
    − Often a substance abuser has an underlying behavioral disorder or
    other mental illness.
    − Treatment such disorder should be done along with the treatment of
    drug abuse.

    Withdrawal Symptoms and Nursing Intervention or Management


    Alcohol
    Withdrawal symptoms include
    − Tremors
    − Anxiety
    − Restlessness
    − Insomnia
    − Hypertension
    − Hallucination
    − Illusion
    − Seizures
    − Disorientation
    Nursing Interventions

    1. Provide care in a nonjudgmental manner


    2. Monitor vital signs and neurological signs every 15 minutes
    3. Provide quiet, non stimulating environment
    4. Encourage a family member to stay with the patient to minimize anxiety
    5. Explain all treatments in a simple manner
    6. Orient the patient frequently
    7. Initiate seizure precautions
    8. Administer anti anticonvulsant medications as prescribed
    9. Provide small frequent carbohydrate foods
    10.Administer vitamin especially thiamine
    11.Assist the patient with activities of daily living
    12.Allow patient to express fears and feeling
    13.Start on Disulfiram therapy as prescribed

    Patient Education
    − Educate about the effect of medicine
    − Ensure that the patient agrees to abstain from alcohol and any alcohol
    containing substance
    − Instruct the patient that the effect of medicine may last for several days after
    discontinuation.

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