AA/NA Observation Andrea Ross February 15‚ 2011 Health class For my observation. I attended an NA meeting. It was in Hemet CA‚ on a Tuesday night. The building was called “Red Dog Group”. I had walked in‚ and told the lady at the front desk that I was here to sit in on a meeting and observe it for my health class. She said”Of course you can‚ just wait here for about another 10 minutes
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physically dependent on opioids? I have seen new born babies that get methadone to treat withdrawal symptoms. These babies are born physically dependent on opioids or another type of drugs because the mother is a user. Once the baby is born‚ he/she is not getting the drug. Consequently‚ withdrawal symptoms occur such as irritation‚ high-pitched cry‚ or tremors. The treatments to prevent withdrawal symptoms in the newborn babies are methadone or sometimes morphine‚ but the prescribed drug is tapered down
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probably have the best chance to be effective when they are integrated into a relatively comprehensive substance abuse treatment program that includes drug-focused interventions such as regular urinalysis‚ drug counseling‚ and‚ for opioid-dependents‚ methadone maintenance pharmacotherapy. Brief psychodynamic therapies are perhaps more helpful after abstinence is well established. They may be more beneficial for clients with no greater than moderate severity of substance abuse. It is also important that
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plans incorporate two or more of these modalities to successfully treat the addict‚ and often their families. The Allopathic modality refers to the use of modern medicine to treat the physical addiction. The two most common medications used are methadone and LAAM (Levo-alpha-acetyl-methadol). These medications suppress the withdrawal symptoms and cravings associated with Narcotic Addiction. The primary withdrawal method for this modality is to switch the user to a comparable drug that has milder
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distribution‚ metabolism and excretion. Opioids are substances (endogenous or synthetic)‚ which produce ‘opiate-like effects’. Opiates are alkaloids derived from the Papaver somniferum poppy e.g. Morphine‚ Codeine (a morphine-like agonist) and Methadone (a synthetic analogue of morphine) and are primarily used as analgesics.[1] Discussion: Morphine has a 4-ring structure with a tertiary nitrogen (permits anchoring to opioid receptors) and 2 OH groups shown in Figure 1. When the benzene OH group
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Given what we understand about drugs‚ is current policy and practice in the United Kingdom‚ an appropriate response to the presence of illicit drugs within our society? A drug can be described as a substance that has a physiological effect on the body when it is ingested or otherwise introduced into the body. Illicit Drugs are drugs that the sale‚ supply and manufacture of has been forbidden by law. When a person becomes mentally or physically dependent on a substance they are described as being
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Psychometrics Psychometrics is the measurement of what we talk and think about or how to assign numbers to observations. Psychometrics measures mental capacities and judgements what we think about. It can also be used to measure of intelligence or mental capacity. Psychometric tests have often been used by employers to measure a person’s suitability to a particular job role. A psychometric test is composed of questionnaires‚ personality tests and aptitude tests; this information is then transferred
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are being over whelmed with the amount of Ritalin being given to cheldren in the United States. They also state that “US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) considers Ritalin a Class II drug… Other drugs in that category are cocaine‚ metamphetamine and methadone” (One in four US schoolkids doped on Ritalin‚ 2000‚ para. 3). With this statement the author is trying to scare the reader away from using Ritalin. Also they go on to say “DEA deputy director Terrance Woodworth recently confirmed to a congressional
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Portuguese model is not perfect. In both the United States and Portugal methadone is offered as a safer‚ and more controlled alternative to heroin and other harmful drugs. “The Portuguese model isn’t as effective as we might hope - but it occured to me that is America Mario might well be dead.” Mario is living in Portugal that the author met. He has been using heroin since age 14. He was not open to the idea of using methadone as an alternative to heroin‚ even though it was readily available to him
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"(48). We enter her life at the moment it seems to be lost. The whole world loses its color and animation when she learns her turn is up. She experiences highs and lows in her last moments. She meets Dilaudid and the cartoons‚ morphine and methadone. "On methadone tablets a warm orange glow sprung forth and bloomed like a glorious‚ time-lapse rose in her abdomen and then rolled through her body in orgasmic waves."(53). Without some outside source of warmth she is a prisoner in her broken body‚ trembling
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