The nurse is managing care for a group of patients with substance use disorder. The patients have completed group education about the disease of addiction. The nurse determines that learning has occurred when the patients make which statements?
1. "Heroin addicts often die from heroin withdrawal."
2. "Substance abuse depends on complex variables."
3. "Most addicts became addicted from pain medication in a hospital."
4. "Addiction includes a compulsion to use a mood-altering substance."
5. "There is most likely a genetic component to addiction."
2,4,5
Rationale 1: While extremely unpleasant, withdrawal from opioids is typically not life threatening.
Rationale 2: Substance abuse depends on multiple, complex, interacting variables.
Rationale 3: Prescription drugs rarely cause addiction when used according to accepted medical protocols.
Rationale 4: Addiction is an overwhelming compulsion that drives someone to repetitive drug-taking behavior, despite serious health and social consequences.
Rationale 5: Children of alcoholic parents are four times more likely to become alcoholics than children of nonalcoholic parents.
Global Rationale: Addiction is an overwhelming compulsion that drives someone to repetitive drug-taking behavior, despite serious health and social consequences. Substance abuse depends on multiple, complex, interacting variables. Children of alcoholic parents are four times more likely to become alcoholics than children of nonalcoholic parents. Prescription drugs rarely cause addiction when used according to accepted medical protocols. While extremely unpleasant, withdrawal from opioids is not life threatening.
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