The nurse is managing care for a group of substance abusers. The clients have completed group education about the disease of addiction. The nurse determines that learning has occurred when the clients make which statements?

Question

Standard Text: Select all that apply.
1. "A heroin addict can die from heroin withdrawal."
2. "Addiction includes a compulsion to use a mood-altering substance."
3. "Most addicts became addicted from pain medication in a hospital."
4. "Substance abuse depends on complex variables."
5. "There is most likely a genetic component to addiction."

Answer 1

Correct Answer: 2,4,5
Rationale 1: While extremely unpleasant, withdrawal from opioids is not life threatening.
Rationale 2: Addiction is an overwhelming compulsion that drives someone to repetitive drug-taking behavior, despite serious health and social consequences.
Rationale 3: Prescription drugs rarely cause addiction when used according to accepted medical protocols.
Rationale 4: Substance abuse depends on multiple, complex, interacting variables.
Rationale 5: Substance abuse depends on multiple, complex, interacting variables, including a genetic component. Children of alcoholic parents, for example, are four times more likely to become alcoholics than are 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. Substance abuse depends on multiple, complex, interacting variables, including a genetic component. Children of alcoholic parents, for example, are four times more likely to become alcoholics than are children of nonalcoholic parents. While extremely unpleasant, withdrawal from opioids is not life threatening. Prescription drugs rarely cause addiction when used according to accepted medical protocols.