Drug induced amnesia

Defination

Risk factors

Family history of substance misuse and addiction

Peer pressure from people using drugs

Having mental illness especially if untreated

An unstable home life

First experimenting with drugs /alcohol at young age

Using drugs that are highly addictive e.g opioids.

Nursing intervantions

Encourage patient to stop using

Encourage new hobbies and activities

Advise patient to go forr therapy

Advise the patient to prevent relapse.

Treatment

Detox

Therapy /memory loss therapy

Treat the symptoms

Pathophysiology

Causes

Clinical manifestation

Pain

References

Balota DA, Ferraro FR, Lexical, sublexical and implicit memory processes in healthy young and healthy older adults and in individual with dementia of alzheimer's type. Neuropsychology 1996:10:82-92

Buhle. Ne, reder LM. modeling age-related memory deficits :A two-parameter solution. Psychology and aging (in press)

Tremors

Irritability

Depression

Impairment or loss of memory due to drugs

Loss of memory due to drugs

Drug-induced memory loss is typically anterograde

The inability to creat new memories for period of time

Memory loss affect are generally transient

It's limited to short term memory

Substance abuse e.g alcohol or marijuana

General anasthesia e.g benzadiazepines or sedatives.

Clinical manifestation

Inability to control substance abuse

Intense cravings for a drug/alcohol

Using drugs/alcohol even in risky situations

Requiring more and more of substance to get same effect

Feeling withdrawal when not using substance

Brain damage from drug use