Abusing Prescription Medical Case Study

Daniel is a 43 year old Caucasian male who identified as heterosexual. Daniel is currently married to Sandy for year and together they have a son. Daniel drinks a gallon of Vodka every day. He wakes up around three AM to drink to avoid withdrawal sickness. Daniel sickness includes seizure, shaking, heart rate and sweat perfurcelly. Daniel reported that he needs to have alcohol in his system in order to function at all. Daniel also abuses multiple prescription medications on a daily basis; 15 prescription a day narcotic and opines for pain control. Daniel is also abusing cough syrup. Daniel was adopted when he was two old. He family is very religious; Baptism. The family attended church weekly and day attended a religious school. Since a child Daniel new that he had a “gift”. He would know who was calling before answering the phone; he would know who passed away before anybody in the family. This brought problem with his family belief. His family would say that his “gift” was

He started drinking one or two beer per week and now he drinks every three hours a gallon of vodka every day. Daniel is also abusing prescription medications and when he does not get what he one from a doctor he would go to a different doctor to obtain what he wants. Daniel also exhibiting withdrawals when he does not have alcohol in his system. He would have seizure, shakes, heart would rate and sweat. Daniel had entered to a progressive course; Daniel passed the adaptive stage when he started increasing the amount of alcohol intake without realizing the side effect or withdrawal after word. Currently Daniel is in the dependent stage where he is exhibiting physical withdrawal as previously stated. Daniel does not go into details about his medical condition; the only thing that he mentions is that he has Lupus. However, at the rate that he is drinking, he maybe at the deterioration stage without realizing