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Substance Use Disorder and Addictions
Paula King
Walden University
Capstone
Dr. Jane Lyons
June 16, 2019
Problem Statement
Substance use disorders and addictions are becoming a common challenge within the social construct in todays’ society. It is vying with the normative of social structures that support good behavior and sustaining from using drugs. A drug is any that substance that is consumed by a person, that may change typical substantial capacities. A medication is a compound substance utilized in the treatment, fix, anticipation, or finding or used to generally upgrade physical or mental prosperity. Medications might be endorsed for a restricted term, or all the time for perpetual issue. Recreational medications are synthetic substances that influence the focal sensory system, for example, narcotics or drugs. They might be utilized for apparent gainful consequences for discernment, awareness, character, and conduct. A few medications can cause dependence and habituation. Numerous regular substances, for example, brews, wine, and a few mushrooms, obscure the line among nourishment and medications, as when ingested they influence the working of both the brain and body. When an individual fall ill due to drug use (which they often do), it becomes very hard to treat them. More specifically, when an individual takes a drug overdose, it becomes hard to assist them because they cannot express themselves after passing out.
Many different factors determine the effectiveness of treatment. The problem here is that the barriers to treatment delay it and make treatment untimely. When a physician conducts first aid but is yet to fully help the patient realize vital signs because of diagnostic challenges, response to an emergency may be delayed, and a patient's life may be in danger.
Lack of communication is the first barrier to treatment because drug and substance abusers have slurred speech, and at times, they cannot completely talk. A majority of drug and substance abusers do not use in front of their families. As such, it becomes difficult for a relative to tell the doctor what the patient used. Besides, the drugs abused (even if they are in the form of pills) are never preserved in labeled bottles. The use of multiple drugs and substances for the sake of realizing a dopamine rush later causes a multiplicity of conditions or disorders. Afterward, what follows is a diagnosis of confusion since comorbid disorders may be complicated to deal with (Djulbegovic and Guyatt, 2017).
Summary
Evidence-Based Practice and Evidence-Based Medicine is yet to be embraced fully in the medical community. Health care professionals are, however, to be trained on matters revolving around Evidence-Based Practice and Evidence-Based Medicine. It will take a considerable amount of time before health caregivers figure out how Evidence-Based Practice and Evidence-Based Medicine can be used to deal with the multitude of challenges that surface
when a drug and substance abuse patient is brought forward to the casualty of a hospital.
Reference
Djulbegovic, B., & Guyatt, G. H., (2017). Progress in evidence-based medicine: a quarter century on. The Lancet, 390(10092), 415-423.
https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/comorbidity-substance-use-disorders-other-mental-illnesses
Straus, S. E., Glasziou, P., Richardson, W. S., & Haynes, R. B. (2018). Evidence-Based Medicine E-Book: How to Practice and Teach EBM. Elsevier Health Sciences.
