Management of Substance Use Disorders (SUD) (2015)

Running head: MANAGEMENT OF SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS (SUB) (2015) 1
Management of Substance Use Disorders (SUD) (2015)
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MANAGEMENT OF SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS (SUB) (2015)
SUD (2015) Overview
This is a clinical practice guideline for the management of substance use disorders. It
gives a description of critical decision points in the managing substance use disorder. It provides
precise and detailed evidence-based recommendation integrating current information alongside
practices for providers throughout the DOD and VA health care system. SUD (2015) main
intention is to prove patient outcomes alongside management of patients with substance use
disorder. The release of SUD (2015) guideline has led to an expanded general knowledge as well
as understanding of SUD.
The enhanced recognition of complicated nature of such conditions has culminated in the
adoption of novel strategies to manage as well as treat patients with SUD and this has included
new development linked to pharmacotherapy and additional options for treatment. This guideline
is aimed at helping healthcare practitioners in each aspect of caring for patient and include
diagnosis, treatment as well as follow-up. This system-broad goal of evidence-based guideline is
to enhance the health and well-being of patients by guiding health practitioners who care for
patients with SUD along the pathways of management that are backed by evidence. The
anticipated outcome of successful SUD (2015) guideline implementation include the following:
 Assessing the condition of a patient and determining the best method of treatment in
collaboration with patient.
 Emphasizing the use of patient-centric care.
 Minimizing preventable morbidity and complications
 Optimizing the recovery of each patient to lower or remove consumption, enhance health
and wellbeing, live a self-directed life as well as strive to hit his full potential.

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Discuss how different professionals in the healthcare system
This guideline denotes a substantial step towards enhancing and treating and managing
patient with SUD in DOD and VA. It is intended for DOD and VA healthcare practionares.
These providers include nurse practitioners, physicians, physician assistants, social workers,
psychologists, nurses, chaplains, and pharmacists, addiction counselors among other people
engaged in care of service members as well as veterans with suspected or diagnosed SUD.
The nurses are encouraged to utilize a patient-centric care approach which is
individualized anchored on patient needs, capabilities, goals, previous treatment experience
alongside preferences. Irrespective of the practitioner settings, this guideline dictate that each
nurse must give patients in the healthcare system access to evidence-based interventions suitable
to such a patient. When the nurse properly utilize this guideline, they will decrease the anxiety of
the patients, boost trust in clinicians as well as improve the adherence to treatment.
It will also improve patient-clinicians communication via patient-centric care. The
guideline dictates all the nursing professionals to review the outcomes of the past self-change
attempts, previous treatment experiences, as well as outcomes. They must also ask the patients
regarding their willingness to accept any referral to the addictions specialists and also they are
demanded to involve each patient in the problem prioritization to be tackled and in setting
particular goals irrespective of the setting or care level selected (World Health Organization,
2016).
Addiction counselors are required to involve patient in shared decisions. In the entire
VA/DOD clinical care guideline, these people must focus on shared decision making. This is
because the patients suffering from SUD alongside addictions counselors make decisions about