The Adolescent Client Is in a Drug Rehabilitation Program

question 6

Multiple Choice

The adolescent client is in a drug rehabilitation program. The mother of this client says to the nurse "The doctor said my son has a physical addiction to alcohol. What does this mean?" What is the best response by the nurse?

• A) "He will have an intense craving for alcohol; this is best managed in group therapy."
• B) "He will have feelings of depression when stopping alcohol; we need to monitor him for suicide."
• C) "His body is used to alcohol; he will have specific withdrawal symptoms when it is stopped."
• D) "His brain remembers the euphoria he had with alcohol, and he has a craving to return to it."

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Definitions:

Color-Blindness

An ideology that proposes ignoring racial differences in an attempt to treat all individuals equally, which can inadvertently ignore systemic inequality.

Cosmopolitanism

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White Guilt

A feeling of guilt or responsibility that some white people may experience for the historical and ongoing racial injustices committed by others of their race.

Racial Awareness

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