07ee_Substance-Induced Disorders Flashcards
Substance-Induced Disorders:
Three Classes
Substance intoxication
Substance Withdrawal
Substance/Medication induced Mental Disorders
Substance/Medication-Induced Mental Disorders:
Three Types
Psychotic disorder
Depressive disorder
Neurocognitive disorder
Substance/Medication-Induced Mental Disorders:
Common Diagnostic Criteria
Symptomatic presentation of a mental disorder
Develops within one month of substance intoxication or withdrawal or of taking medication that is capable of producing the disorder
Does not occur only during the course of delirium
Substance/Medication induced Mental Disorders:
Overview
Develops in the context of the effects of substances of abuse, medications, or toxins
Potentially severe, usually temporary, but sometimes persisting central nervous system syndromes
Alcohol-Induced Disorders:
Overview
Alcohol is associated with all of the substance-induced disorders except OCD
Alcohol intoxication
Alcohol withdrawal
Alcohol withdrawal delirium
Alcohol-induced major neurocognitive disorder
Alcohol-induced sleep disorder
Alcohol Intoxication:
Maladaptive behavioral and psychological changes, and at least one of 5 symptoms
Slurred speech
Incoordination
Unsteady gait
Nystagmus
Impaired attention or memory
Stupor or coma
Alcohol Withdrawal:
Diagnostic Criteria
2+ symptoms that occur within several hours to a few days following cessation or reduction
Autonomic hyperactivity (sweating, tachycardia)
Hand tremor
Insomnia
Nausea or vomiting
Transient delusions or hallucinations
Anxiety
Psychomotor agitation
Generalized tonic-clonic seizures
Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium
Prominent disturbances in attention, awareness, and cognition
Autonomic hyperactivity
Vivid hallucinations
Delusions
Agitation
Alcohol-Induced Major Neurocognitive Disorder:
Overview
Significant decline in one or more cognitive domains
Interferes with independence and at everyday activities
Alcohol-Induced Major Neurocognitive Disorder:
To specifiers
Nonamnestic-confabulary type
Amnestic-confabulatory type: Korsakoff syndrome
Korsakoff syndrome
Anterograde and retrograde amnesia
Confabulation to compensate for memory losss
*Linked to thiamine deficiency
Alcohol-Induced Sleep Disorder:
Overview
Usually Insomnia
Results from either intoxication or withdrawal
Alcohol-Induced Sleep Disorder:
Intoxication symptoms
Immediate sedation
Increased stage 3 and 4 sleep
Reduced REM sleep followed by:
increased wakefulness
increased REM sleep (vivid anxiety-arousing dreams)
reduced 3 and 4 sleep
Alcohol-Induced Sleep Disorder:
Withdrawal symptom profile
Severe disruption and sleep continuity with vivid dreams
Stimulant Intoxication:
(Amphetamine-type drugs and cocaine)
Essential Features
Euphoria or affect of blunting
Hypervigilance
Anxiety or anger
Impaired judgment
2+ characteristic symptoms during or shortly after drug use needed for diagnosis