Benzodiazepine overdose

TERMINOLOGY CLINICAL CLARIFICATION • According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSMS), avoidant personality disorder (APD) is associated by a pattern of hypersensitivity to negative evaluation, social inhibition, and feelings of inadequacy 7 • Individuals who meet the criteria: 2 o Being extremely shy, o Inhibited in new situations, o Fearful of disapproval and social rejection. • Their fear of rejection is so overwhelming that is affects all aspects of…

Methadone overdoses do make the local newspapers, thus leading the reader to formulate a perception of the treatment option. Methadone can be overdosed on, if the patient is not given the appropriate medical amount or takes methadone among other abused substances, mainly strong benzodiazepines. If a patient takes a benzo and then takes methadone the results can be fatal, thus an overdose. A second commonality, is the abuse of take home medicine. In…

due to prescription drug overdoses. Of these overdoses 16,235 were from opioid painkillers and 6,973 were benzodiazepines also known as sedative/muscle relaxants (cdc). Why is it that drunk driving fatalities seem to garner more attention nation wide that prescription drug overdoses do? You would think that the one with the higher death toll would attract more attention, would you not? Yet each year it seems that this tragic loss of life due to prescription drug overdoses hardly receives any…

I receive a call from my sister and she was crying. She stated that mom had died from an OxyMorphine Overdose! I broke out in tears for what seemed like the hundredth time since she had died. I couldn’t believe she had gotten ahold of this drug. We knew it was not a medication she had been prescribed because we had cleaned out her apartment days after she…

The first patient I had the pleasure of assessing is a 17-year-old adolescent named Tracy. Tracy was diagnosed with asthma at the age of 3 years old, she also has been diagnosed with ADHD and a generalized anxiety disorder. Tracy is responsible for her own care. With Tracy’s age in mind, adolescence is a particularly challenging period for adequate self-management. In the course of managing her illness, she has been requesting refills for her ADHD medication sooner than the refill date. It would…

Heroin use and addiction is an epidemic that has spread rapidly across the United States over the past two decades. It is surprising that this epidemic is spread across every social class in America. Poor or rich, they are using or have an addiction to heroin. Addiction usually leads middle to lower class citizens to a life of crime to support their habit. Substance abuse care in correctional facilities is nothing new. Although, incidents are being brought forth that show a lack of care for…

and may lose control of their rage. They may also lie to another staff member or family member and say the nurse was abusive during the interaction. 6. Ensure the patient has not “cheeked” their medication. Rational- They may be saving it up to overdose on it or abuse it to get high later. 7. Encourage the family to engage in therapy with the client. Rational- sociopaths feel little to no emotions even to those they love and that’s how they are able to manipulate them so easily, by…

Danielle Wood supports this with the statistic that the "number of opioid dispensings in Australia increased from 500,000 in 1992 to 7.5 million in 2012" (164). Also, she presents a table to show diverted drugs and which ones are used the most, with Benzodiazepines and Opioids being most common. Additionally, because the article is organized by subtitles for each section, the reader knows the subject of that piece before, during, and after reading it, which enables a better understanding of that…

Bath salts is the name given to a class of drugs that has common manmade chemicals related to cathinone. Bath salts are a kind of synthetic drug with mood-altering and stimulant properties, typically in the form of crystals (). The bath salt drug can be confused for the salts that are used during bathing. The creators of the bath salt drugs mimic the appearance of the bathing salts. Both of the salts are tiny, white, powdery particles and are usually sold in transparent pouches.…

the proper way. It’s also important to mention that these symptoms that are mainly caused from the "high" effect usually subside within a few hours. Unlike other drugs and even pharmaceutical medications, marijuana is never life threatening and an overdose is yet to be…