Substance Use Flashcards
Client is displaying the following symptoms:
inappropriate sexual or aggressive behaviors; impaired judgment; slurred speech; emotional lability; incoordination; unsteady gait; involuntary, rhythmic movement of the eyes; impaired attention or memory; stupor; coma.
What substance are they likely on?
Alcohol
Client is displaying the following symptoms: sweating; tachycardia; hand tremor; insomnia; nausea or vomiting; transient illusions or hallucinations; anxiety; psychomotor agitation; grand mal seizures; delirium tremens (DT’s).
What substance are the likely withdrawing from?
Alcohol
Caused by thiamine deficiency often associated with alcoholism; symptoms include confusion, loss of muscle coordination (leg tremors), and vision changes (abnormal eye movements, double vision, eyelid drooping).
Wernicke’s Encephalopathy
Retrograde and anteretrograde amnesia and confabulation (attempts to compensate for memory loss by fabricating memories); hallucinations.
Korsakoff’s Syndrome
Client is displaying the following symptoms:
euphoria; anxiety; hyperactivity; grandiosity; confusion; anger; paranoia; auditory hallucinations; tachycardia; elevated or lowered blood pressure; dilated pupils; perspiration or chills; nausea or vomiting; weight loss; psychomotor agitation; muscular weakness; confusion; seizures.
What substance are they likely on?
Amphetamines/Cocaine
Client is displaying the following symptoms:
dysphoric mood; fatigue; vivid and unpleasant dreams; insomnia or hypersomnia; increased appetite; psychomotor agitation or retardation.
What substance are they likely withdrawing from?
Amphetamines/Cocaine
Client is displaying the following symptoms:
headache (most common), changes in mood (such as
depression and anxiety), difficulty concentrating, fatigue, and/or increased appetite.
What substance are they likely withdrawing from?
Caffeine
Client is displaying the following symptoms:
impaired motor coordination; euphoria; anxiety; sensation of slowed time; impaired judgment; social withdrawal; conjunctival injection (redness of the eyes); increased appetite; dry mouth; tachycardia.
What substance are they likely on?
Cannabis
Client is displaying the following symptoms:
irritability, anger or aggression, nervousness or anxiety, sleep difficulty (insomnia), decreased appetite or weight loss, restlessness, depressed mood, stomach pain, shakiness/tremors, sweating, fever, chills / headache.
What substance are they likely withdrawing from?
Cannabis
Client is displaying the following symptoms:
perceptual changes; anxiety; depression; ideas of reference; paranoid ideation; pupillary dilation; tachycardia; sweating; palpitations; blurred vision; tremors; incoordination.
What substance are they likely on?
Hallucinogens
Client is displaying the following symptoms:
Following the cessation of use, the reexperiencing of one or more of the perceptual symptoms that were experienced while intoxicated with the hallucinogen; this reexperiencing causes significant distress or impairment in social, occupation, or other important area of functioning.
What substance are they likely withdrawing from?
Hallucinogens
Client is displaying the following symptoms:
initial euphoria followed by apathy or dysphoria; pupillary constriction; drowsiness or coma; slurred speech; impairment in attention and memory.
What substance are they likely on?
Opioids
Client is displaying the following symptoms:
dysphoric mood; nausea or vomiting; muscle aches; lacrimation or rhinorrhea (runny eyes & nose); pupillary dilation; diarrhea; yawning; fever; insomnia.
What substance are the likely withdrawing from?
Opioids
In the alcoholic family, who is this person?
The one with alcoholism.
Dependent
In the alcoholic family, who is this person?
The one who does everything to get the dependent person to stop drinking except what might actually work (often confrontation or leaving)
Enabler
