1-page double space minimum per question.
1. Write a paragraph describing your possible reactions to your patient who misuses substances.
a. Would your response be different depending on the substance (e.g., alcohol versus heroin or marijuana versus cocaine)? Give reasons for your answers.
b. Would your response be different if the person were a professional colleague? How?
2. Rosetta Seymour is a 15-year-old who has started using heroin nasally.
a. Briefly discuss the trend in heroin use among teenagers.
b. When Ms. Seymour asks you why she needs to take more and more to get “high,” how would you explain to her the concept of tolerance?
c. If she had just taken heroin, what would you find on assessment of physical and behavioral-psychological signs and symptoms?
d. If she came into the emergency department with an overdose of heroin, what would be the emergency care? What might be effective long-term care?
