Social Work Case Study: Substance Abuse

According to the Diagnostic Statistic Manual 5 (DSM-5) substance use disorder is when the individual has a dependency on alcohol or drug, followed by penetrating craving and antisocial behavior to acquire the substance. The terms substance abuse and substance dependence refer to substance use disorder, which has been separated into three classifications as follows

In Georgia there’s a program called the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) and it is offered to state prisoners Formula Grant Program (42 U.S.C. 3796ff et seq.) It avails states and units of local regime in developing and implementing residential substance abuse treatment programs within state and local correctional and detention facilities in which prisoners are incarcerated for a period of time ample to sanction substance abuse treatment.

Behavior/ Living situation: Youth is currently at the youth Detention Center in Union County. Youth was arrested on 12/1/16 with possession of Controlled Dangerous Substance. Youth reported that he wants to come home and be with his family. Ms. Moore stated that she does not want youth to come home due to safety concerns. Ms. Moore wants to move to a safer community before youth can come home. Ms. Moore stated that youth’s grandmother house is not suitable for youth to live due to the community and safety concerns. CM discussed residential substance abuse programs with youth and youth is not in agreement to residential programs.

I work for a residential substance abuse program for adolescents as a counselor and outreach coordinator. I work with clients who are coming in for treatment as well as their family members. our clients come from Chicago and the surrounding suburbs.

Another challenge of working with substance users occurs when clients arrive intoxicated for a session. This may at times be a way of testing the counsellor, and although from the outside the client may seem impaired, being intoxicated may be their more familiar, functioning state. If the client is still able to engage, it is possible and often beneficial to continue with the session, if only in a limited way, Helen says.

Health Partners health insurance does cover drug and alcohol rehab. Because of the Affordable Care Act, health insurance companies are required to cover drug addiction. Keep in mind that the amount of coverage one is able to get for drug and alcohol rehab can vary.

In my career as a substance abuse counselor I met this amazing women. To look at her she appeared to be beaten and broken down by the choices that she made in life. She was a heroin addict, prostitute, daughter of a broken home, mother to a child she abandoned, mother to a child that was conceived by rape, and a sex trafficking victim. In the time I counseled her, she told me many things. However, the one thing that stuck out was the time that she prostituted herself and ended up chained to a radiator in an abandoned building for two weeks and raped repeatedly by several different men. Regardless of her choice to be a prostitute she became a trafficking victim when she was held against her will and raped. The man that held her captive sold her body for sex to any individual willing to purchase it. While, this amazing woman has suffered from these terrible atrocities she has rekindled the broken relationship with her family, worked through her trauma, and has been in recovery from heroin for over two years.

Substance abuse disorder (SUD) is a comorbidity of PBD. The DSM-V defines SUD as “a maladaptive pattern of substance use leading to clinically significant impairment or distress” (“NAMI comments on the APA’s Draft Revision of the DSM-V: Substance Use Disorders”, 2015, p. #1). The impairment or distress must occur in a 12-month period (“NAMI comments on the APA’s Draft Revision of the DSM-V: Substance Use Disorders”, 2015).

Drug abuse is defined in our text, Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare (Zastrow) as, "the regular or excessive use of a drug when, as defined by a group, the consequences endanger relationships with other people, are detrimental to the users health, or jeopardizes society itself' (pg. 254). Treatment for drug abuse include programs such as inpatient programs that are provided by the community mental health centers and/or specialized chemical abuse rehabilitation centers. Outpatient programs such as counseling, medical, and vocational services. A couple other resources are halfway houses, and self-help programs (alcoholics anonymous, pill addicts anonymous, and narcotics

The client was referred to Evolutions Treatment Center for issues related to Substance abuse. He was born in Bay City, Michigan and lived mostly in Detroit. During his childhood he reported moving about 20 times because of mother seeking a better life for the family. He noted he was kicked out at 18-years of because of drug use. The client stated he was primarily raised by his mother. He currently resides in South Bend, Indiana and lives alone. The client came into treatment immediately following detox.

They're blending the medication for the engineered sedative fentanyl — a soporific that is 30-to-50 times that's only the tip of the iceberg powerful over heroin, What's more interminably more dangerous.

Social workers promote social justice and social change with and on behalf of clients. “Clients” is used inclusively to refer to individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. Social workers are sensitive to cultural and ethnic diversity and strive to end discrimination, oppression, poverty, and other forms of social injustice. These activities may be in the form of direct practice, community organizing, supervision, consultation administration, advocacy, social and political action, policy development and application, education, research and evaluation. Social workers seek to enhance the capacity of people to address their own needs. They also seek to promote the

The interview started again. I was so into drug that I lost my ability to sell the drug. Therefore, my friend’s brother told me that I have to leave their apartment. I started sleeping in the street and stealing from the passenger and begging for food and money. Sometimes if I could find a phone I contacted my mother and requested money, poor lady she always brought me food money and clothing. I sold my new clothing to make some money for my drug.

Medical History and Current Status: The client is in good health and appears to have no physical health issues or ailments.

Substance abuse is one of the most detrimental social problems found in all societies. It has been the leading cause for generational breakdowns of families and communities, and is probably the most controversial social problem when developing corrective solutions. Substance abuse can be defined as the chemical dependence, or pattern of usage of both legal and illegal substances, that has adverse physical, psychological, and psychomotor effects on the human body. The use of substances does not always have to be a drug, but can also be anything taken into the body that can cause a mood-altering effect, such as inhalants or solvents. Additionally, substance abuse has many different faces and is the one social problem that crosses all