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CE Home > Psychiatric Nursing > 60094 Keeping Informed About Important Substance Abuse Issues
60094b · 4.8 hrs
Keeping Informed About Important Substance Abuse Issues
Author: Judith Sutherland, RN, MN, PhD

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This course has been approved for 4 clock hours by the Commission on Case Manager Certification from January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2007.

The purpose of this course is to provide nurses with information about a variety of critical issues related to substance abuse and its treatment. Topics addressed are the use and abuse of the club drug Ecstasy, adolescent alcohol use and abuse, prescription drug abuse, women and substance abuse, and selected complementary therapies used as alternative treatments for substance abuse

After studying the information presented here, you will be able to:

  1. Relate three toxic complications of Ecstasy use.
  2. Discuss the developmental risk factors associated with teens’ misuse of alcohol.
  3. Describe assessment strategies for suspected patient prescription drug abuse.
  4. Identify three consequences of substance abuse in women.
  5. Discuss three amino acid supplements used to treat addictions.
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