SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS - Alcohol

Question 1

16 yo made multiple attempts to get sober, but fails. Example of negative reinforcement in this situation?

Answer 1

Using alcohol and drugs for emotional distress

Question 2

Adolescent with alcohol use. Striatum

impacts what part of addiction to alcohol?

Answer 2

Reinforces alcohol-seeking behavior

Question 3

Most reliable tool in assessing an

adolescent for substance use disorder, who just crashed their car and has an elevated ethanol level?

Answer 3

Clinical history

Question 4

What would be included as a therapeutic intervention in an adolescent that presents to the ER with depression, self-harm, passive SI, alcohol use to ease pain, seeing a psychiatrist - but not on medication, patient and mother able to create a safety plan and agree to remove all lethal methods in the home?

Answer 4

Counsel patient and caregiver about substance use disinhibition