Midterm 1 Lecture Flashcards
What are a few of the social determinants of health
- Income
- Education
- Housing
- Indigenous status
- Gender
- Race
- Disability
The lower your income, the ______ your health
lower
What are the indirect impacts of SUDs on social costs (dollars lost due to SUDs)
- loss of wages due to death
- disability
- being absent from work
- being present at work but not able to function
Which drug has the highest social cost ($)
Alcohol
What are the top 4 substances that have the highest social cost ($)
- Alcohol
- Tobacco
- Opioids
- Cannabis
Are most healthcare providers prepared to work with patients who have SUD?
No, many lack the training and often patients aren’t asked about their drug habits
What is often implicated in many suicides
Alcohol and other drugs
> either SUDs or substances in their systems
Do most people with an addiction receive treatment?
Not, most do not
Why do words and labels matter?
Language can stigmatize and impact behaviour
Stigma
Negative attitudes and beliefs about a person that creates prejudice, and leads to negative actions
Self stigma
Internalization of negative beliefs and attitudes, and applying them to the self
5 levels of the substance use continuum
Level 0: Total abstinence Level Rare to social use Heavy social use Heavy problem use/early addiction Middle to late stage addiction
“Addiction” is used to refer to which end of the continuum of substance use?
The extreme end
4 criteria for having an Addiction
- Loss of control over the use of a substance
- Use substance under risky circumstances
- Experience social impairment due to substance use
- Developed physical dependence on the substance as evidenced by tolerance and withdrawal
T/F Many people who could be categorized at experiencing an Alcohol Use Disorder recovered on their own without treatment within 4 years (according to one study)
True
What is the most common drug of abuse
Alcohol
Are people stuck at one stage on the addiction continuum?
No, it is fluid and you can move between stages
Screening
determining who needs further assessment
Who gets screened?
ppl we think are at higher risk for a disease than the general population
Assessment
Defines the nature and the severity of the problem
> Do they meet diagnostic criteria
What are the 4 things you are aiming to do in the first contact with a client
- Build relationship
- Increase person’s motivation for change
- Assess the person’s strengths
- Identify supports to help the person through the change process
5 characteristics of screening tools
- short
- quick to administer and score
- quickly detect possibility of a problem
- can be used in a variety of settings
- not precise
What types of questions should be asked in screenings?
Open-ended questions
TWEAK screening acronym
Tolerance Worried Eye-opener Amnesia Kut down
What are benefits and draw backs of using online or paper screening tools
- inexpensive
- less threatening than face to face
- Vulnerable to deception
- require literacy
- must be valid on pop of interest
6 steps to a diagnostic assessment
- Referral question
- Clinical interview
- Substance use evaluation
- MSE, Mental Status Exam
- Formal testing
- Summary and diagnosis
During a diagnostic assessment, what things do you want to pay attention to while they are speaking
- The “what” of the speech (content)
2. The “how” of the speech (speed, body language)
Referral question
- how the client finds their why to the practitioner
- what is the question the practitioner is being expected to be answered
What is the first thing you do in a clinical interview
Getting informed consent
What is a semi-structured interview
There is certain info we try to gather from everybody, but you want to have flexibility to pursue the necessary leads
6 general areas that the MSE screens for
- Appearance, behaviour and attitude
- speech and communication
- mood and affect
- ideation and thought content, hallucination
- orientation and memory
- intelligence, judgement and insight
Phase 1 in the substance use evaluation
- Extent and severity of use
- type, amount, frequency, tolerance, family history - Problems associated with substance use (life problems)
- social, family, work, consequences, legal - Past military service
- Treatment
Phase 2 in the substance use evaluation
- Determine the appropriate level of care
- Client treatment goals
- Treatment readiness and motivation
- Client’s strength
- Recovery capital
3 types of tests in formal testing
Objective tests (MMPI) Projective tests (TAT) Intelligence tests (WAIS)
Validity
How well the test accurately measures the construct of interest
Reliability
The test’s ability to measure the construct of interest consistently and in a stable manner
______ make a decision based on one piece of data /souce
NEVER
What has been shown to increase increase the accuracy of the information that the client gives
- Alcohol free
- given assurance of confidentiality
- in a clinical or research setting
4 key concepts in DSM5 diagnosing
Disability
Distress
Impairment
Functioning
2 of the following 11 criteria need to be met for 12 months to be diagnosed with an Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD)
- Alcohol taken in larger amounts or over a longer period then intended
- Persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts to cut down or control use
- Spend lots of time getting, using, or recovering from alcohol’s effects
- Craving or strong urge to use
- Recurrent use results in failure to fulfill major role fulfillment
- Continued use despite continued problems
- Important activities given up or reduced because of alcohol use
- Recurrent use in situations where it’s physically hazardous
- Continued use despite knowledge of a problem what was caused or exacerbated by alcohol
- Tolerance (behavioural tolerance = practiced at masking impairment)
- Withdrawal or alcohol or benzo taken to avoid withdrawal symptoms
Number of criteria met and corresponding severity for an alcohol use disorder
2 -3 mild
4-5 moderate
6+ severe
What other drug is very often taken with alcohol use?
Smoking cigarettes
Issues you need to be aware of when people are using multiple substances
- Cross tolerance
- Pharmocological synergism
- Cigarette use
Pharmocological synergism
Interactions that amplifies both effects
What two psychological illnesses often go hand in hand with SUD
Anxiety and depression
Bi-directional model of dial diagnosis
the SUD and psychiatric illness both cause each other
Common factor model of dial diagnosis
Overlapping diathesis for SUD and psychiatric conditions
What is a major problem when people have a psychiatric illness as well as a SUD
the SUD may mask the mental illness symptoms or be misdiagnosed as an MI symptom
Can most people with an SUD benefit from treatment?
Yes, regardless of the severity
ASAM levels of care
Level 0.5: Early intervention
Level 1: Outpatient treatment
Level 2: Intensive outpatient treatment/partial hospitalization
Level 3: Residential/inpatient treatment
Level 4: Medically managed intensive inpatient treatment
Client-treatment matching
Matching the level of treatment with the severity of the problem. The least intensive treatment possible
Transtheoretical model of change 6 stages
Pre-contemplation Contemplation Preparation Action Maintenance Relapse
Recovery capital
Any resource in the person’s world that can be tapped to initiate and sustain recovery from alcohol and other drug problems
What are ways that drugs are classified?
Grouped by similarity:
- Therapeutic use
- Mechanism of action
- Mode of action
- Chemical structure
Psychoactive
Substances that act on the mind and impacts mental status
Three main categories of drugs
Stimulants
Depressants and opioids/narcotics
Hallucinogens
Addictive drugs hijack the ________ centre in the brain
reward/pleasure
Physiological effects of stimulants
Increased: heart rate, blood pressure, bod temp, metabolic rate, pupils
Decreased: appetite, salavation
NT that are effected by stimulants
Norepinephrine
Dopamine
Serotonin
Some examples of stimulants (5)
Cocaine Amphetamines Methylphenidate Tobacco Caffeine
What does it mean to say that stimulants are sympatho mimetic
They mimic the effects of the sympathetic nervous system
Do people overdose from stimulants?
Not really
How do people die when taking stimulants
heart attacks
Desired effects of stimulants (4)
- More awake
- Elevated mood
- More dopamine activity
- Behavioural excitement
Undesired effects of stimulants (4)
- Anxiety
- Reduced self control
- Irritability
- Psychosis at high doses
What are bath salts? What makes them so deadly?
Mixture of drugs (cocaine and amphetamine-like)
>lethal because we don’t know what is in it
Symptoms of bath salts (7)
- Shortness of breath
- blurred vision
- tremors
- seizures
- convulsion
- psychosis
- high BP