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nevelica

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Suppose you work in a local psychiatric hospital. A woman is admitted for the fourth time this year for experiencing acute psychotic episodes. According to her partner, she has complied with her medication regimen. What do you do?
 
  A. Ask about her alcohol use, since her psychosis might be
  triggered by its use.
  B. Ask about her alcohol use or drug use outside of the prescribed
  medication, since her psychosis might be triggered by their use.
  C. Have her medication regimen reviewed, because it obviously
  needs to be adjusted.
  D. Remember that a side effect of her medication when used with
  alcohol is acute psychosis.

Question 2

The general alleviation of dysphoria theory states that ________.
 
  A. individuals with mental illness discover that the actions of
  substances relieve or change a range of painful affect states
  B. genetic factors interact with early life events and environmental
  stressors, making people with mental illness vulnerable to the
  effects of substances
  C. people with severe mental illness begin using substances to feel
  better (eg, escape isolation, boredom, loneliness, or despair, and
  improve peer relations)
  D. mental illnesses precede substance use disorders rather than the
  other way around



Madisongo23

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Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

C



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