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Ch 36
Mental Health
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Excessive use or abuse, Display of psychological disturbance, decline of social and economic function, and uncontrollable consumption | Addiction |
| 14 or younger, 44% will develop | Alcoholism |
| Aclohol is involved in _% of all deaths caused by motor vehicle accidents and fatal intentional injuries such as suicides and homicides | 38% |
| A person who exhibits a pattern of compulsive and habitual use of a substance or practice to cope with pyschic pain from conflict and anxiety | Addictive personality |
| Personality traits of addictive personality are | low stress tolerance, dependency, negative self-image, feelings of insecurity, and depression |
| Increased drug tolerance and srtong denial. Good prognosis for recovery, even without treatment program | Early stage of dependence |
| Moderate impairment and withdrawal signs with abstinence, uses to feel normal. Few recover without treatment | Middle stage of dependence |
| severe impairment in all areas of function and continuous use but cannot achieve "normal" feeling. Must recieve treatment for improvement | Late stage of dependence |
| Most teenagers have their first drink between what ages | 12 and 15 |
| Many multidrug users begin by abusing alcohol and later abuse other substances | Gateway drug |
| Central nervous system depressant | Alcohol |
| Legal blood alcohol limit for driving a motor vehicle | 0.10% |
| Congenital anomoly resulting from daily maternal ingestion of alcohol equivalent to 3 ounces of absolute alcohol per day | Fetal alcohol syndrome |
| Birth defects related to alcohol use | Mental retardation, growth disorders, wide set eyes, malformed body parts, and spontaneous abortion or still births |
| Tremors are seen 6 to 48 hours after the last drink and sometimes last for 3 to 5 days | Alcohol cessation |
| Short-term memory loss,disorientation, muttering delirium, insomnia, hallucinations, polyneuritis, and painful extremeties with footdrop affecting the gait | Korsakoff's psychosis |
| Memory loss, aphasia, involuntary eye movement and double vision, lack of muscle coordination, and disorientation with confabulation | Wernicke's encephalopathy |
| When is substance abuse considered a problem | Loss of control |
| 12 step program | AA |
| As few as two drinks a day may result in | Fetal alcohol syndrome |
| When is substance abuse considered a problem | Loss of control |
| In alcoholism the one question a nurse should ask | Dilantin |
| 15% will die from | Delirium tremens |
| Opiate analgesic used in heiroin and morphine | Methadone |
| Antedote for narcaotic OD | Narcan |
| OD on PCP and LSD is called | Bad trip |
| OD on amphetamines signs and sypmptoms | Shaky tremors, parkinson like |
| what is used as treatment with bruxism(teeth grinding) | Pacifiers |
| Most nurses won't consider substance abuse until | Withdrawal symptoms appear |
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