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