Nursing Case Study On Femiolia

Heather was addicted to painkillers for eight years. She grew up extremely close to her grandfather and after

He was constantly high on heroin, and when he was not, he was grumpy and abusive towards her. Eventually in times of lonesome, Baby got a hold of drugs on her own. First, she tried magic mushrooms. At first, getting high was a way for Baby to entertain herself. However, she eventually tried her father’s drug of choice, heroin. She quickly becomes addicted to the feeling she gets when high off this drug. Heroin entwines itself into Baby’s day-to-day life and begins to impair her normal decision making, “There wasn’t much, but there was enough to make all my anger dissipate. As soon as I was high, I couldn’t even remember what my escape plan had been (569).”Her quick addiction allows Baby to find an escape from her reality. Turning to drugs to fill the void her parents left within her childhood is not only temporary, but it is dangerous. People close to Baby demonstrate first-hand the dangers that this coping mechanism can pose. Her pimp, Alphonse, even died of an overdose with her in the room, “As soon as I looked at Alphonse’s face, I knew that he was dead, even though I had never seen a dead body before (604).” Baby’s method of coping from her father’s negligence is to turn to the exact thing that she witness ruin him, heroin. However, as a child of her age, she would not know any better. Her father is happier and more affectionate towards her while he is high, so it would only make sense to her to think that she would be the

mother died of lung cancer. After these devastating events took place, it was a phone call from her twin sister Becka, and knowing that therapy alone or coupled with AA weren’t enough to break her physical and emotional addiction with alcohol, that

Lauren’s mother succumbed to the troubles of the world and was addicted to drugs while she was pregnant. Her mother’s addiction caused the severity of Lauren’s

A mentally ill teenage named Jessica Roger was born to Joan and Kevin Roger. As a young girl Roger’s mother was verbally abusive to her and her sister, she even went as far as trying to kill her husband. When little Roger was about eleven years old her mother left them with their alcoholic father. Roger ended up in prison for biting her sister and other acts because of her disorder, eventually she committed suicide while serving her time in a place where she just didn't belong. Although her mother showed remorse after her death and said, “she accepts blame, maybe too much, for what happened to her Jet”. On the other hand her father was unapologetic for his drinking “I still drink. It’s legal”. Roger sent her parents countless letter of how she was feeling but they didn’t do anything until after her death. Are you wonder how a mentally ill sixteen year old girl ends up on prison?

In the 80s Boston, as well as other cities, experienced a drug epidemic. The drug was called crack and it affect the city of Boston badly. A nurse named Fulani Haynes at Boston Medical Center was working during the crack epidemic. She explains how to care for babies who were born addicted to drugs that passed from a mother’s bloodstream through the placenta and into a tiny body. “The babies couldn’t tolerate being held or rocked, she recalled. They wailed at the sound of soft lullabies. Only complete darkness, silence, tight swaddling, and medication could soothe them.” This drug has nothing to do with heroin but it shows the people of Boston that if the heroin addiction continues to spread, more and more children will be born addicts and

This story, while centered on Maries struggles with addiction and family support the story we also hear from two social workers in DCF; Ilia

Throughout the story, we read of Basile happiest of times when she was a little girl, living in a bright and sunny home in New Jersey and recalls her mother playing with her hair and kissing her over and over, comforting her. Basile then talks very thoroughly about when, where and how her parents became users of opioids and how they impacted her life starting at the age of 8. After both her parents started using, Basile and her little brother were poisoned by addiction and were impacted heavily. Basile recalls spending Christmas in a very tight room in homeless shelter with her mother and brother. This experience wasn’t ideal, but she says she was spoiled with the donated gifts

Rachelle Allen had 3 kids she didn't want anymore kids so she "underwent a tubal ligation". So she could't get pregnant. Later years she met her husband. Her husband wanted kids. Allen agreed and had a surgery so she could have kids again. It was 2005 where she was in pail from the surgery. This was the first time Allen used opioids. 6 months after the surgery her pain was gone. She kept taking opioids because she said it was the only way she could function. Her doctor didn't tell her that opioids were highly addicted. Allen researched what was going on with her and Allen said "I knew I was in trouble". On Allen's wedding day she was 8 weeks pregnant and she said she was "pretty high". Allen started to demand to her doctor to give her more

During the summer of 1967, the area in San Francisco was a magnet for individuals looking for drugs. Joan hung out with runaways and acidheads. She met a different array of people such as, dealers to poets. One thing she did notice is that there were several children. They were as young a five years old taking acid. While at Haights she blended into the scene. The readers of the article that she is writing gave them the sense that she was putting herself at risk reporting this story. As she wrote what was happening there she was afraid that she might get sucked up into the Haight abyss and become a lost soul.

In today’s society people are talking about babies being born to drugs, and how could a mother do that to their unborn child. Drug addiction is a very serious issue that needs more research. We are still learning the effects of substance abuse. One problem that needs to be looked at is are there enough Rehabilitation Centers, to help the women who are addicted to these different street drugs. Also doctor and nurses should not judge these women but instead give them the best prenatal care that can be provided. We need to see what harm and side affects it has on the mother and baby, so that we can be able to understand better how to treat these women and get them off drugs before they do harm their babies.

At this age, Emilia began to partake and experiment with drugs – specifically crack cocaine – which has become a constant issue for the last fourteen years of her life. Emilia’s drug use has been constant and unrelenting, even to the point to the birth of her first child Joey whom tested positive for cocaine at birth which resulted in Emilia losing custody of the child. Drug use during these early years is very dangerous to a growing individual both in the form of development as well as its ability to cause lasting addiction as “The majority of those who have a substance use disorder started using before age 18 and developed their disorder by age 20” (NIDA, 2014), showing that the roots of Emilia’s addiction to cocaine has become deeply

At 11 years old she saw her mother deceased in a casket. She gave birth to her first baby at the age of 16 and had five more children to relieve issues of feeling empty and alone. As the pressures of teen pregnancy, poverty and motherhood mount Diane turns to crack cocaine and neglect her then young children. Her eldest daughter reports her drug use to her teachers which results in the removal of all six of Diane’s children into foster care for a period of 10 years. During that time Diane turns to her community drug rehabilitation center, Child welfare services, her religion and her therapist for help in recovering from her addictions and for help in reuniting with her children.

Sadie was born following a pregnancy complicated by intrauterine exposure to OxyContin, fentanyl, and methadone. She was diagnosed with severe neonatal abstinence syndrome with narcotic withdrawal. Sadie was given both Phenobarbital and methadone during her 23-day stay at Community Regional Medical Center following her birth. She was discharged on methadone to her mother on October 29, 2009.

Children who are being born from drug-addicted mothers often suffer from serious consequences that may affect them for the rest of their lives. Barbara Harris is a foster mother who took in three children from a drug-addicted mother and this experience influenced her to make an effort to prevent drug-addicted women from getting pregnant. She created an organization called CRACK (Children Requiring A Caring Kommunity), which offers $200 to drug addicts who agree to get sterilized or undergo long-term contraception. Many people disagreed with the organization because they feel that it is targeting the poor and they think that the money that is being given to the women is only feeding their