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Submitted: 2010-10-08 22:35:44 | Word Count: 656
Drug Abuse And Alcoholism
The words medication and medicine are typically used interchangeably. Medication is a substance administered for the diagnosis, cure, treatment, mitigation (relief), or prevention of disease. The term drug conjointly has the connotation of an illicitly obtained substance like heroin, cocaine or amphetamines.
When there is chronic, repeated use, without medical supervision, of non-medical drugs and alcohol in quantities large enough to cause uncontrollable behavioural changes with a resulting dependency on these substances, there exist drug abuse and alcoholism respectively. We have a tendency to live during a drug oriented society, and there is a drug to fulfill everybody's wants like tranquilizers, barbiturates, or amphetamines. Under supervision by a competent physician, this have useful effects. Sadly, it is a comparatively easy matter for a personal to obtain these medicine illicitly and he could use them as his passport to UTOPIA. The indiscriminate use of drugs to shut out life's issues is not peculiar to any one phase of the population. Individuals in all socioeconomic levels, age teams, and academic levels are seeking the same answer. Sadly drug abuse only adds many huge problems later.
Drug dependency could be a mental downside on the abuser's part, and a positive for of disorder. It is a sign of impairment of functioning and therefore the individual is sometimes thought-about to be deviating from the traditional and is considered as psychoneurotic. There's a state of consciousness alteration and a defect on personality.
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Classification of mental disorders
A. Psychoses
a. Senile and presenile dementia
b. Alcoholic psychosis
c. Psychosis related to intracranial infections
d. Psychosis associated with alternative cerebral conditions
e. Psychosis related to other physical conditions
B. Psychoses not related to physical conditions
a. Major affective disorders
b. Schizophrenia
c. Paranoid states
d. Different psychosis
C. Neuroses
D. Personality disorders and sure other non psychotic mental disorders
a. Temperament disorders
b. Sexual deviations
c. Alcoholism
d. Drug dependence
E. Psychophysiologic disorders
F. Special symptoms
G. Transient situational disturbances
H. Behavioural disorders of childhood and adolescence
I. Mental retardation
J. Conditions without manifest psychiatric disorders and nonspecific condition
1. social maladjustment without manifest psychiatric disorder
2. Nonspecific conditions
Pathology, symptoms, therapies and approaches for the major diagnostic entities in psychiatry
Psychoses
A. Acute brain syndrome- symptoms from which patient sometimes recovers since true is usually reversible and temporary in nature
Pathology
a. Infection
1. Intraxcranial or nervous system; e.g., enxcephalitis or meningitis
2..Systemic or toxic e.g., Pneumonia or typhoid
b. Trauma to the top
c. Circulatory disturbances ensuing in impairment of blood flow to
the brain
d. Metabolic disorders- electrolyte imbalance; e.g., dehydration,
diarrhea, vomiting
e. Drug intoxication or poisoning
f. Alcoholic intoxication
Symptoms
a. Delirium and its accompanying confusion, hallucinations and
delusions
b. Disorientation and confusion on time, place, identity
c. Memory defects for both recent and remote facts
d. Slurring of speech may occur along with an indistinct pronoun-
ciation or use of words
e. Tremors, incoordination, imbalance, and incontenence could
develop
Therapy
a. Scale back causative agent like fever, toxins, medication or alco-
hol
b. Prevent any harm
c. Provide diet high in calories, protein and vitamins
d. Offer delicate sedative if necessary
Nursing intervention
a. Offer quite surroundings, reduce stimuli
b. Give assurance to patient and family
c. Since liability of mood is common, set up care so that the staff approaches these patients after they seem receptive
d. Ensure adequate intake and output
e. Observe for changing physiologic and neurologic symptoms
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