Describe the different types of half-life and their importance regarding substance use.
What will be an ideal response?
Distribution half-life is the amount of time it takes for a substance to enter circulation. This is a critical issue for medications involved with pain management as the patient and physician wants the medication to start controlling pain as quickly as possible. Distribution half-life has two components. The alpha half-life is the period after peak blood concentrations for the substance whereas the beta half-life is the time frame before the substance concentration in the system begins to decline. Regarding benzodiazepines, the beta half-life plays a role in where the drug is a short, medium, or long-acting benzodiazepine. Therapeutic half-life is the time to inactivate 50% of the substance whereas the elimination half-life is the time to eliminate 50% of a single dose of a substance from the body.
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A. nonparametric statistical methods B. descriptive statistical methods C. qualitative statistical methods D. parametric statistical methods
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a. subtype diagnoses. b. specifier diagnoses. c. differential diagnoses. d. conditional diagnoses.
Please discuss the Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS). What are its components, what does it focus on? What have been the proven benefits?
What will be an ideal response?
The main obstacle to effective communication is that most people tend to
a. Be evaluative b. Get defensive c. Avoid any indication of approval or disapproval d. Take too long to negotiate for the meaning of the message