Alcohol and other drugs

This article discusses the challenges faced by individuals involved in substance addiction and the stigma associated with it. It also explores the principles and models of care for traumatic and violent patients. The article references studies on public stigma towards people with drug addiction and healthcare professionals' regard towards working with patients with substance use disorders.

Alcohol and
other drugs

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The person who in involved in any type of substance addiction face several challenges in daily
like. Because after taking substances it will be difficult for them to conduct their daily basis activities.
In simple term it can be said that, there mind stop work after some level which create difficulty for
them in conducting daily basis operations. Along with this, they also get engaged within any type of
harmful activities which can result in harm to own as well as other people also that can be family or
friends. People have different attitude towards the people who are substance taking as well as of the
characteristics of their addiction modulated stigma in the manner which are mostly consistent with
attribution. For instance, young age people and female with addiction of substance demised several
stigmatizing attitude i.e., greater duration of addiction as well as social influence to utilise drugs
increased them (Sattler, S. And et. al., 2017). Furthermore, characteristics of respondents modulated
stigma: women, younger respondents, and those with higher education expressed less-stigmatizing
responses in comparison of others.
For individual who use drugs or getting recover from problematic drug use, stigma may be
issue to several opportunities as well as rights. Moreover, people who are stigmatized for substance
involvement can tolerate labelling, stereotyping, discrimination, social rejection and many more. Even
when their drug uses have absence of any negative consequences related to the same. People don’t
like to help substance uses person than are people with physical disable or mental illness. According
to the research it has been identified that, mostly healthcare professional have negative as well as
stereotyped views for the people who use illicit drugs. In addition to this, stigma is one of the major
factor which prevent individual from completing as well as seeking substance addiction treatment and
also from using harm reduction services like syringe access program. Within vicious cycle it can be
said that social exclusion created through stigma which result in increasing need for variety of
services using. Apart from this, people who use have stigma towards each other is more common.
There are some AOD users who are the people use socially acceptable or legal drugs like alcohol.
Such type of people may also have negative prejudices against people who are taking illegal
substances like marijuana (Van Boekel and et. al., 2014). People who are using marijuana which is
soft drug have negative prejudices towards the people who are taking hard drugs like cocaine.
Moreover, it will be difficult for health care professional to provide assistance to AOD users.
There are 5 principles to be applied of people with traumatic and violent histories. From which
first is related to safety and security of patients according to which it is essential to develop or create
space for traumatic and violent patients so that they can feel culturally, physically and emotionally
safe. Along with this it will also help professional or doctors to understand about patient’s discomfort

or unease situation. Through this medical professional can treat traumatic as well as violent patients in
effective manner. Next principle is conduct transparency and trustworthiness because it is essential
that individual must know about their actual situation as well as it is their right to know what medical
treatment they are getting and for what reason. So it is essential for medical professional to do adopt
transparency while treating patient as well as it is also essential to develop trustworthiness relationship
with patient as that will make treatment process easily and effective. Third principle is choice
according to which it is necessary to provide choices to traumatic and violent patients so that they feel
comfortable and share their feeling with professional effective. This will also leads to happy and
successful treatment of patients according to their choice. Forth principles which is essential to
applied while treating traumatic as well as violent patients is collaboration according to this it is
necessary to develop collaborative relationship patients because through this patient feel comfortable,
safe and came while taking medical services. This will help in ensuring effective and successful
implementation of treatment. In this last principle is empowerment according to which it is essential to
develop autonomy as well as self-determination among the traumatic and violent patient or individual.
This is so because that will help individual in encouraging themselves to get recover fast and effective
in order to leave their life effectively. So it is essential for medical professional to adopt these five
principles while treating individual who are suffering from traumatic as well as violent situation or
histories.
The essential helping qualities, attitudes and skills are mainly based on biopsychosocial, the
spiritual model of care and strength’s model. According to the biopsychosocial spiritual model of care
of patients are concerns with an individual’s relationship through the transcendence (Saad, De
Medeiros and Mosini, 2017). Moreover in this it is essential to address totality of each and every
patient’s on several aspects such as psychology, spiritual, relational existence physical and social. It is
considered as essential factors for in the medical services or nursing care. This is so because that will
provide proper guideline for medical professionals that how they must conduct services in proper way
without affect anyone spiritual concern. On the other hand strength’s model is determined as recovery
oriented approach for the mental health services. This is determined as compelling alternative to
traditional medical approach (Signorelli and et. al., 2017). In addition to this, respective model
demonstrates evidence based factors that help people who have psychiatric disabilities which hamper
in identifying meaningful as well as important life goal. Respective model is designed in order to
facilitate a proper recovery based partnership among the clients as well as practitioners. Moreover, it
is essential for medical professional or practitioners to adopt both the spiritual model of care and
strength’s model while treating patients.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Sattler, S. And et. al., 2017. Public stigma toward people with drug addiction: a factorial
survey. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 78(3), pp.415-425.
Van Boekel, L.C. and et. al., 2014. Healthcare professionals’ regard towards working with patients
with substance use disorders: comparison of primary care, general psychiatry and specialist
addiction services. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 134, pp.92-98.
Saad, M., De Medeiros, R. and Mosini, A. C., 2017. Are we ready for a true biopsychosocial–spiritual
model? The many meanings of “spiritual”. Medicines, 4(4), p.79.
Signorelli, C. And et. al., 2017. Models of childhood cancer survivorship care in Australia and New
Zealand: Strengths and challenges. Asia‐Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology, 13(6), pp.407-
415.