Bensalih Case Study

Xavier then reported, the applicant recovery is up and down and the reason the patient was transferred and admitted to the Norwich location was due to an altercation as the Hartford Dispensary has zero tolerance for physical violence. Since May of of this year, the applicant's UDS results are negative. Last positive result was in April for cocaine, according to the counselor. Please note, during the applicant intake, he was asked about other illicit drugs and only confirmed for use of heroin and THC, not the cocaine. The applicant's current dose at the Hartford Dispensary is 105mgs as he is being detoxed daily. His highest dose was at 145 mgs before his detoxification. The physical altercation was the applicant's first behavioral incident at the clinic. He was also on a 90 Probation for his illicit use and it would have expired in August, but due to the recent incident, he was removed from the clinic, not discharged, but transferred as mentioned before. Counselor Xavier only concern of the applicant is maintaining his

Ms. McGinnis is an 82-year-old female, with history of Alzheimer dementia, diabetes, and hypertension. Her primary caregiver is her son, Michael McGinnis. Mr. McGinnis has admitted to the ER doctor, multiply employees at Senior Care and to DHR worker on the phone that he gave his mother methadone. Ms. McGinnis is not prescribed Methadone and is mental unable to consent to taking methadone.

ICM met with Mr. Hurley at New Start one located at 3653 N. 15th street t to assess Mr. Hurley’s needs and to complete paperwork for his activation. Mr. Hurley is a 41 year old Caucasian male who self- reports using Heroin since the age of 25. Mr. Hurley denied a history of other substance use; however, his referral noted a history of Cocaine and Marijuana use. Mr. Hurley is currently residing at New Start 1 and has been there for approximately two weeks. He stepped down from a level 3B care at Miracles in Progress. Mr. Hurley shared with ICM that his longest period of abstinence was for 8 years, but he could not recall details of his sobriety. During, this encounter Mr. Hurley was very talkative and engaged well with ICM. Mr. Hurley stated that he was hospitalized in the past on multiple occasions

Ontario Addiction Treatment Centres (OATC) - Windsor: The immediate goal is to stabilize you on your methadone hydrochloride dose, promote a way of well-being and forestall physical withdrawal symptoms. methadone hydrochloride can considerably decrease your drug cravings, and assist you eliminate drug use. Methadone maintenance treatment works best once combined with different services and interventions. As a part of OATC, you may be ready to freely access addiction direction, psychotherapy and management, moreover as varied medical services.[1]

The first process when assisting whether or not a patient qualify for MAT is the completion of their admission psychosocial assessment by a clinician to determine whether or not the patient would be given a MAT assessment according to their response to their substance use and frequency section of the psychosocial. The MAT assessment that would be given is the Hub Mat screening form. This form will help clinician identify whether or not a patient is appropriate for an opiate treatment program, office based opiate treatment, or a non-medication assisted treatment and the reasons behind why the patient is appropriate or not appropriate for the treatment. If a patient would best fit other services or treatment it would be noted on the assessment

D-Met with the patient as the Women's Group was cancelled due to low attendance. This writer addressed with the patient about her AWOL status, at which the patient started to get emotional as she is struggling with transportation, borrowing her mother's car, her husband is still having issues getting into the Hartford Dispensary-tested postiive for methadone, and too much stressors in her life, which is causing the patient to not eat. This writer validated the patient's feelings, provided support, and made suggestions. The patient admits to relapsing yesterday by purchasing 10 bags of heroin, but using 6 and gave her husband 4 bags-use of method was IV. The patient feels guility of using, but her stress factors are overbearing her recovery process and the patient struggles with coping. She then says, " When I come to the Women's Group, I feel good....I was hoping there was going to be group today....I don't know." This writer provided empowerment and encouragement to the patient to focus on her recovery process and proceeded to discuss risk factors of what she will lose.

D-The patient arrived on time for her appointment. Reported stable on her new current dose. Deny craving and withdrawals. According to the patient, her weekend was good and again, happy to have her take home bottles. Then the patient reported, she continues to keep all appointments with her mental health provider and its going very well. This writer then discussed with the patient about the next step to her recovery. The patient reported, she wants to continue with her methadone until she's ready to start tapering off on the methadone. The patient has some fears to tapering off on her methadone because she does not want to experience any craving and have a relapse.

Methadone clinics can be another solution to combat the ever growing heroin epidemic. Methadone is very similar to heroin as it provides the same high, but it blocks the brains reward receptors that are effected by heroin. This allows the user to detox slowly without little withdrawal symptoms that accompany it, rather than a dreadful recovery. The goal is to relieve heorin addict’s cravings and desire for heroin in a safe, legal manner. Addicts are only able to attain Methadone and have use of the clinics by having a prescription. Methadone has been around and proven to be affective since the 1960s, but only recently have clinics come into practice. There has been a rise of Methadone clinics popping up in neighborhoods where there are high

The most important industries in Boonah are agriculture and tourism as seen in figure 3. And it is noticeable that agriculture is the top business industry in Boonah. As they are the ‘carrot capital’ with the largest carrot production in Australia, stated by Windley, farming produce is highly successful. Since Boonah gives a wide variety of activities, tourism has been a huge investment into the town.

When concerning the patient situations there are some important facts that need to be reviewed. The important facts about this case is the patient was a 16 years old guy that got in an automobile accident. The patient stated that he was in a methadone treatment program. A methadone are drugs approved for use in treating opioid dependence patient such as

This project will focus on using Methadone as a pharmacological treatment strategy as well as the normal non-pharmacological treatment strategies to

“In 1949, Isbell and Vogel, working at the U.S. Public Health Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, showed methadone to be the most effective medication for withdrawing addicts from heroin (Joseph, Stancliff, & Landgord, 2000, p. 347). Further studies revealed that administering methadone to an addict for seven to ten days had a relapse rate of more than 90% when treatment ceased. “By 1998, the number of methadone patients in the United States had increased from the original six research patients in 1964 to about 44,000 patients in New York Stated and 179,000 patients worldwide” (Joseph, Stancliff, & Landgord, 2000, p. 347). The number of individuals enrolled in MMT continues to increase as the methadone clinics and the overall effectiveness of MMT gains

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that there are about 100,000 of deaths per year and there are approximately 8 million people in United States who have substance abuse problem (CDC, 2015). A better understanding and greater attention to the commonly abused substance and its treatment would be beneficial in a providers practice and will also protect the provider from the legalities of prescribing these medications. There are several forms of treatment for every abused substance and the main goal is to help the patient to stop the stop and helping them during the phase of withdrawal. The intent of this paper is to discuss the commonly use substance for abuse

Post World War II New York City was faced with a major heroin epidemic with over 151,000 names listed in the Narcotics Register (Herman). As a medical response, methadone was developed to treat heroin addiction (Herman). Today methadone maintenance treatment has grown to become a popular therapy for drug addiction as well as pain management. Methadone has helped many people to create new lives for themselves, yet there is still debate over the success of this program. Methadone assisted treatment should be seen as an effective program in combating opioid addiction due to its health and social benefits for both users and the community.

Methadone is a program designed to help opioid dependents since 1969. With the rise in crimes and deaths related to opioid use, the Australian government maintained a methadone program which was endorsed in 1985 as an effective treatment (Health.gov.au, 2014). Despite the efforts made by the government to contain the unsanctioned use of opioids, there remains a significant gap in the system which was intended predominantly to respond to the risks posed to opioid addicts. The crack in the methadone program was only brought to light after an incident whereby an ‘intellectually disabled 16-year-old girl died after using methadone in combination with other drugs’ (Spooner, 2013). It was then called for an urgent review after further suspicions of other people dying of overdose on drugs that were only supplied by programs. In light of the incident, the Health Department has taken on recommendations to improve the implementation of health care, which in this case is the methadone program. There are a