MRCPsych Paper B - Addiction Flashcards
Average heroin use per in a day of a typical dependent user
0.25-2.0g/ day
Preferred maintenance treatment for opioid use disorder
Buprenorphine
3 main types of pharmacotherapy in opioid withdrawal symptom
- Methadone at tapered doses
- Buprenorphine
- a2 adrenergic agonists - lofexidine, clonidine
Tolerance to this symptom does not usually develop with long-term opiate use
constipation
Intervention with the most consistent evidence base among all psychosocial interventions for cocaine users
Contingency management
Most common side effects of benzodiazepines
drowsiness, ataxia, dizziness
ICD-11 term that denotes a state in which alcohol has caused damage to a person’s physical and mental health, without meeting the criteria for dependence
Harmful pattern of use
Most commonly used illicit opioid in Europe
heroin
Acute harmful effects of LSD (2 answers)
Behavioral toxicity, bad trips
NICE guidelines: first choice treatment for opioid dependence
Methadone → buprenorphine
Most common cause of death in benzodiazepine overdose
respiratory depression
LSD can be detected in the urine for up to how many days
4 days
Initial treatment period for nicotine replacement therapy
8-12 weeks
Kinaesthetic hallucinations are reported incases with
benzodiazepine withdrawal
*patients feel that their limbs are being twisted, pulled, or moved
NICE recommendation: atypical antidepressant for smoking cessation
Bupropion
*seizure risk 1:1000
Opioid injection practice that is associated with Candida enophthalmitis
using lemon juice to reconstitute
Main side effect of varenicline
nausea
Most effective smoking cessation pharmacotherapy in the general population
Varenicline
Percentage of UK men aged 55-64 that drinks over 14 SD per week
38%
Lifetime risk of suicide in those with alcohol dependence drinkers
10-15%
Lifetime risk of suicide in those with alcohol problems
4%
Cerebellar degeneration has been reported to occur in up to what percentage of alcoholics
33%
Most common CNS complication in alcoholics with and without micronutrient deficiencies
Cerebellar degeneration
*damage is irreversible
Reducing regime management for alcohol withdrawal: typical duration of chlordiazepoxide to be given
5-7 days
*Chlordiazepoxide 10-20mg QID, reducing gradually over 5-7 days
Classic triad of delirium tremens
clouding of consciousness/ confusion
vivid hallucinations
marked tremors
Onset of delirium tremens
72-96 hours after last drink
Discrete episodes of anterograde amnesia that occur in association with alcohol intoxication
Alcoholic blackouts/ alcohol induced amnesia/ palimpsest
Percentage of alcoholic patients that experience alcoholic hallucinosis with abstinence
5%
Medication avoided for outpatient assisted withdrawal from alcohol due to the risk of respiratory depression
Chlormethiazole
Edwards & Gross criteria for alcohol dependence
- Narrowing of the drinking repertoire
- Salience/ primacy of alcohol-seeking behaviour
- Increased tolerance
- Repeated withdrawal symptoms
- Relief or avoidance of withdrawal symptoms by further drinking
- Subjective awareness of compulsion to drink
- Reinstatement after abstinence