Sample Case Study: Substance Abuse

H1: Anka Behavioral Health, Concord, CA H2: Anka Behavioral Health Inc - Central County MSC is a treatment facility in Concord, California. Anka Behavioral Health Inc - Central County MSC is a treatment facility which specializes in substance abuse services. They provide partial hospitalization / day treatment and outpatient methadone/buprenorphine or vivitrol. This facility accommodates persons with HIV / AIDS, women, seniors / older adults, military families, and veterans. Their Primary focus is Substance Abuse Treatment.

Goal: Cm met with client for weekly follow up I: CM greeted client and followed up on last week’s session. CM reintegrated goal of the Harm Reduction program was to provided a referral for housing. Intern discussed plan of action to help manage the Client’s access to VA benefits and referral for VASH. Intern validated the progress the client is making and his interest in doing well.

He also seemed confident and showed an understanding of the seriousness of his medical problem. While the social worker can empathize with the client and has noticed some similarities in their backgrounds and life experiences, the client showed poor judgment in drinking and using alcohol to lower his stress. The counselor does not believe that counter-transference issues developed during the assessment. Patrick is a sixty-eight-year-old single, male.

Page’s patient, P, suffers from back pain and he is determined to find the cause of the pain. To rule of the most lethal causes of back pain, some of the questions Page asks include “Did the pain wake him up at night? Was it worse when he was lying down? Had he recently lost weight?” (Page).

Pt. indicated that he would like to donate his two take home boxes to the program if someone needs them. Counselor encouraged Pt. to assess his current account balance and explain his UDS results where shows a pattern of opiates use. Pt. spoke about how he uses oxycotin sometimes because his elbow retained fluid. Pt. verbalized how he drained his left elbow last week and now has a lot of fluid again.

The Addiction Services Council is a non-profit organization. It provides services to those that have an addiction to tobacco, or other drug related issues. They have provided services since 1957 they have always aimed at providing services to help improve the quality of life to the residents of Cincinnati and the surrounding areas. Since 1949 the focus of Addiction Services Council has been to reduce problems related to alcoholism, and drug addiction through the delivery of treatment and prevention services. The Addiction Services Council has been providing services for 65 years they have a wide range of programs that serves children, adolescents, families, women, older adults.

Presenting Problem Christina sought treatment from the PATHway program to address her opioid use disorder. She reported misusing benzodiazepines and heroin since the age of 15. Since the onset of her drug use, she reported experimenting with a myriad of other drugs before settling on the use of benzodiazepines and heroin as her primary substances. She reported her method of use for heroin is intravenous and orally for the benzodiazepines.

PCN-531 Smith Family Case Study I. Demographic Information The patient name is John Smith, 42-years-old white male who is currently working as insurance salesman. He has not been in any trouble at his job, but the nature of his job is quite stressful. He has been married for 17 years with two children (son of 15 years old and daughter of 12 years old).

As previously mentioned above, Narcotics Anonymous is a support group where individuals who are addicted to drug using can go into recovery with the help of others to cleanse themselves mentally, physically, and emotionally from drugs. The support group accepts individuals who are looking to stop their use of any illegal drugs, substance use, and alcohol consumption. An individual(s) with a problem with alcohol and substance use is viewed as an illness, based on the severity of use, and its affects it does to an individual. Alcohol and substance use can start at any age from adolescent to older adult age. An onset of alcohol and substance use can be known when/if there is an indication of it from an individual’s family history, and/or family

1: Associated Rehab Program for Women Inc, Carmichael, CA H2: Associated Rehab Program for Women Inc: Alpha Oaks is a treatment center in Carmichael, California. Associated Rehab Program for Women Inc: Alpha Oaks is a treatment center in Carmichael, California. It primarily focuses on substance abuse services. They also cater on detox services, personalized residential counseling, 12 step connection, alcohol or drugs dependency program, and a residential program. It has programs catering to particular demographics, such as people who have experienced sexual abuse.

BELENKO, S., & PEUGH, J. (1998). Fighting crime by treating substance abuse. Issues in Science and Technology, 15(1), 53-60. This article explains how the justice system addresses the issue of substance abuse and criminal offenders.

The Methadone Train Addictions to opiates, and opiate derivatives, are some of the most prevalent and long-standing drug abuse issues known. These abuses have also contributed to other social problems such as the spread of HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C due to needle injection being a popular method of delivery. In the 1960s, methadone, a synthetic opiate substitute, was introduced as the preferred medical treatment for opiate abuse and addiction and remains so today. Reduction of disease distribution is only one of its heralded benefits. Methadone is commonly used in management of withdrawal symptoms related to addiction to heroin and other opiate drugs, both prescription and non-prescription.

Kelly Pline is a single mother and lives in a one bedroom apartment. Her daughter, Cassidy, is two years old and has been splitting time living with both parents separately. Kelly has been using heroin as her primary drug of choice and has had negative life consequences as a result. Kelly has lost her primary job ten months ago and has had difficulty maintaining any other job. She does not have any concern on how heroin has affected her life, other than it is becoming harder to pay for rent and other living expenses for herself and her daughter.

To reduce the effect on the patient, the recommendation is that they regulate sleep hygiene to maintain their circadian rhythm. Nevertheless, diagnosis is manageable if through adequate behaviour modification, using the recommended treatment options, though constant monitoring of sleep is important to regulate the effectiveness of the phase

These group of people find it difficult to stay awake at the normal time for work, school or social events and have disruptions in sleep patterns when they do sleep (Cleveland Clinic, 2013). Behavioral modifications such as relaxation training, chronotherapy and bright light therapy are some of the non-pharmacological treatments (Gamaldo et al., 2015). Chronotherapy therapy involves making scheduled shifts for sleep time to meet the clients sleep need at the right time. Relaxation training are ways to reduce tension and create a smooth transition into sleep at the appropriate time (Gamaldo et al., 2015). Bright light therapy is very important as client is exposed to the right amount of light for a therapeutic duration of time, which will make the environment appropriately synchronize with sleep-wake cycle (Gamaldo et al., 2015).