Street Drugs Exposed: What Your Patients Are NOT Telling You

Objectives:

• Recognize the signs and symptoms in patients and adolescents of commonly abused prescription and illicit drugs

• Explain the biochemical basis for the disease of the addiction

• Discuss what medications to avoid with the prescribed drug- seeking patient

• Recognize the ‘doctor shopper’ and the management of drug- seeking behavior

• Assess how to manage the chemically dependent patient

• Describe terms such as ‘Meth Mouth’, ‘Lean’, ‘Whippets’, ‘Parachuting’ and more

• Discuss why some patients become addicted and others do not