CHCMHS005 PROVIDE SERVICES TO PEOPLE WITH
CO-EXISTING MENTAL HEALTH AND ALCOHOL
AND OTHER DRUGS ISSUES
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CHCMHS005 PROVIDE SERVICES TO PEOPLE WITH
CO-EXISTING MENTAL HEALTH AND ALCOHOL
AND OTHER DRUGS ISSUES
Cocaine, also known as blow, coke, powder, or crack, is a strong addictive stimulant that is either in powder or crystal forms, mostly used as a recreational drug. Cocaine is extracted from the leaves of the cocoa plant (Erythroxylum cocoa). Cocaine is commonly inhaled in the form of powder or smoke, snorted or dissolved in another substance, and injected into a vein. When taken, cocaine provides a fleeting feeling of intense excitement. Many users of cocaine take the drug for the purpose of keeping their level of attention, alertness, and energy active. Users of cocaine take it repeatedly within a short span of time so as to increase the dose and maintain their high feeling. Cocaine affects everyone differently, once use, some feel; intense euphoria, while others can register reports of sensations of pain, irritability, hallucinations, hypersensitivity to sound, sight and touch, mental alertness, extreme energy and happiness, paranoia and anxiety. Once used for the long term, the effect realized can be increased risk of nervous system disorder, can cause lung damage, loss of sense of smell, inflammation of nose tissues, and reduced cognitive abilities. Usage of cocaine causes mental issues such as depression, anxiety, being paranoid and run-down effects.
Client 1 profile
John is 36 years old male born and stays in Melbourne city. His parent having originated from Germany, John was brought up in a Christian like culture. His dad serving as a doctor at Royal Melbourne hospital and his mother being a nurse at Alfred hospital, raised ground for him to be raised in a luxurious lifestyle. At 24, he married Jacinta, and he got a job as a manager at Fonterra Co-op Group. Due to much exposure to a luxurious life, John has been addicted to using cannabis. His wife reported that her husband argues that taking the cannabis drug boosts his survival techniques at work, claiming that it helps him uniquely compared to other managers. The continued use of cannabis has caused John to develop anxiety and depression symptoms.
The goal to be established on John’s case in how to efficiently and swiftly help him quite the drug usage. This is due to the long term effects that may be experienced to his health and physical attributes as a cause of continued usage. For instance, prolonged usage is known to cause irritation as damage to bronchial passages and lungs due to the smoke produced by cannabis (Booth, 2002). The objectives would to first turn John’s thinking perspective of the drug, and reveal to him how the drug causes damage to his body, before helping him deal with the addiction. In order to achieve this, his wife will be asked to follow up on the counseling process more closely as she avails, helping hand. Still, it would be essential to regularly visit John as we take him through ways of properly managing finance. This would at least take an estimate of five months and having a thrice meeting every week with John.
Client 2 Profile
Magdalene is 26 years old born and stays in Gold coast city. She lives with her single mother and takes her studies at Bond University. Her mother, Olivia, is Australian while her divorced father is said to be from England. Magdalene is not currently working, but she relies on her mother for her personal and educational needs. Magdalene was earlier on working on a weekend schedule on an online firm, which later on shut down. Olivia has noted a radical change in Magdalene behaviour; she says she has turned more alcoholic and making more worse; she found her taking heroine. Magdalene seems to be on though and claims always to want to relieve her mind.
First of all, the strategy for this measure is to get to know which issue might be troubling her. Then the second purpose would to fully make Magdalene focus on the education that would see her finishing up at a good note. To accomplish this, it would require Magdalene to go through counseling sessions and teach her the effect and consequences that might follow when she’s in excess use of these drugs. The time frame required to get positive on how to help Magdalene evade her school colleagues who might be influencing her. This would be accomplished by asking the school management to help control the entrance of drugs into school.
Client 3 Profile
Thomas is a mechanic in the garage located downtown of Sydney city. He is 42 years old, and he has been working in the garage as a mechanic since when he was 24 years old. He got employment after fleeing from the Netherlands. Thomas declares his passion for his job, and surprisingly, he uses concerta while still working. He claims that he uses the drug since it helps him to stay focused and hyperactive while still working. Unfortunately, this drug has caused disadvantages in that it has caused him to change in his work. First of all, Thomas cannot work without the drug; secondly, the drug has been causing him to have several headaches. The main goal for such a case of Thomas is to neutralize the way in which he used the drug and finally make him straighten up and stop using the drug. To evict Thomas from Concerta drug, it would take atleast two months. This would be enhanced by organizing weekly counselling sessions.
References
Booth, M., 2002. Cannabis: a history. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press: Distributed by Publishers Group West.