Substance Abuse Across The Lifespan Flashcards
What is a significant barrier to substance use and trying to treat it?
The patients denial
What is the DSM-V criteria for substance use disorder?
A problematic pattern of use leading to clinically significant impairment or distress manifested by two or more criteria within a 12 month period
How many classes of drugs are on the DSM-V for substance use disorder?
10 classes of drugs
What are some important criteria for substance use disorder?
- Wanting to cut down or stop using the substance but not managing to
- Needing more of the substance to get the effect you want (tolerance)
- Development of withdrawal symptoms
What are some risk factors of substance use?
- Family history (most powerful)
- Male>Female
- Longer work hours
Which profession is valuable for the treatment of substance abuse?
Social workers
Is severe alcohol use disorder an acute or chronic disease?
Chronic disease
What are the standard drink ounces and % of alcohol?
5oZ of wine (12%)
8oz of malt liquor (7%)
12oz of beer (5%)
1.5 oz 80 proof (40%)
What is moderate drinking?
Men: 2 drinks a day
Women: 1 drink a day
What is heavy drinking?
Men: >15 drinks a week
Women: >8 drinks a week
*highest consequences of impaired driving
What is excessive drinking?
Includes binge drinking, heavy drinking, and any drinking by pregnant women or people younger than age 21
What is binge drinking?
Pattern of alcohol consumption that brings the blood alcohol conc. To 0.08% or more
*Men: 5 or more drinks within 2 hours
*Women: 4 or more drinks within 2 hours
What is the most common, costly and deadly pattern of excessive alcohol use in the US?
binge drinking
*most people who binge drink do not have severe alcohol disorder
What are short term health risks of alcohol use?
Injuries
Violence
Alcohol poisoning
Risky sexual behaviors
miscarriage and stillbirth
What are long term risk of alcohol use?
HTN, Heart disease, Liver disease
Cancer (any type)
Learning and memory problems
Depression and anxiety
Social problems
Alcoholism
What is the most commonly used and abused drug among the youth in the US/
Alcohol
How does alcohol get passed from mother to baby?
Through the umbilical cord, cross blood brain barrier in fetus
When should pharmacological agents be used of alcohol use disorder?
For patient that are moderate to severe subtype
Is withdrawlling from alcohol deadly?
Yes
What pharmacological are used for alcohol use disorder? (Inpatient hospitalization)
Benzodiazepine protocols
*lorazepam (ATIVAN)
*Diazepam (VALIUM)
What is the first-line medication for alcohol use disorder?
naltrexone (vivitrol)
Acamprosate (Campral)
What is the second-line medication for AUD
Disulfiram (Antabuse)