• Alcohol Related Brain Injury
• Adolescent Children of Alcoholics
• Alcoholic jealousy
• Alcoholics Anonymous with Narcotics Anonymous
• ALCOHOLISM MYTHS
• Anti-craving Naltrexone Injection Reduces Drinking
• Brief-TSF Description
• Brief-TSF is Holistic Treatment
• Client Impressions About Alcoholics Anonymous
• Comparison of Addiction Treatment
• Counselor Characteristics
• Dentists and Alcohol and Drug Use
• Free Inhalant Abuse Education
• Inappropriate Treatment for Alcohol Withdrawal is Common
• Predictors of Relapse in Alcoholism
• Prescription Drug Overdose Becomes Big Killer
• Sleep, PTSD and Alcoholism
• Spiritual Assessment
• Sweet Tooth and Alcoholism
• Teen Drinking Leads to Risk of Alcoholism
• The Dry Drunk
• Thyroid Function in Depression and Alcohol Abuse
• Training; Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse
• TSF Description
• Twelve Steps to Recovery from Burnout
• Subscribe to BriefTSF by e-Mail

Course Overview: This course will define and discuss inhalant abuse, with particular concentration on how to recognize the manifestations of abuse.

This course is intended for nurses in all areas of healthcare, and health professionals in acute care settings.

Upon completion of this course, the learner should be able:

• Define inhalants.
• Identify classes and examples of inhalants.
• Recognize reasons why youths are using inhalants.
• Describe the characteristics of a youth likely to start using.
• Recognize Inhalant research regarding gender and ethnicity.
• Describe methods of Inhalation and the most frequent site of usage.
• Describe the effects of inhalants on the body.
• Define inhalant intoxication, withdrawal, tolerance and addiction.
• Describe the assessment process.
• Identify emergency treatment.
• Recognize fatal and long-term consequences of Inhaling.
• Correlate the relationship of Inhalant abuse and delinquent behavior.
• Describe keys to prevent Inhalant abuse.

What are Inhalants?

Inhalants are breathable chemical vapors that produce psychoactive (mind-altering) effects. While we are commonly exposed to volatile solvents and other inhalants in the home and workplace, most of us are unaware that these substances can be inhaled as drugs. This is probably because most inhalants were not designed to be used that way and because normal use results in low inhaled concentration.

Inhalants are often called “Gateway Drugs” because they lead to use of other drugs, such as marijuana and methamphetamines. Sometimes the chemical itself becomes the drug of choice and is abused into adulthood. Healthcare professionals and the public generally lack awareness of the toxic effects of inhalants and do not consider that household products could be addicting.

Course is available at; http://www.rnceus.com/course_frame.asp?exam_id=47&directory=inhal

1. 12-Step Recovery Theory and Application
2. AA and the disease concept of alcoholism
3. AA attendance was best predictor of abstinence
4. AA Membership
5. AA Recommendations
6. Abstinent alcoholics can have reduced brain activation
7. Al-Anon offers new life
8. Alcohol Abuse in Older People
9. Alcohol consumption in patients pancreatitis
10. Alcohol Metabolization
11. Alcoholic jealousy
12. Alcoholics & Addicts Can’t ‘Just Say No’
13. Alcoholics Anonymous and church involvement
14. Alcoholics can benefit from Al-Anon
15. Alcoholics don’t see dangerous situation
16. Alcoholism and Personality Disorders
17. Alcoholism is also Genetic
18. ALCOHOLISM MYTHS
19. Anti-craving Naltrexone Injection Reduces Drinking
20. Beyond Codependency
21. Brief-TSF Description
22. Brief-TSF holistic treatment
23. COUNSELOR CHARACTERISTICS
24. Craving Reduction
25. Effects of gambling addiction
26. Elderly substance abuse
27. Free Inhalant Abuse Education
28. Management of substance-abuse disorders
29. Mindfulness Can Help Recovery
30. Neurotransmitter and neuromodulatory mechanisms involved in alcohol abuse and alcoholism
31. Physician Screening for Alcohol Cost Effective but Underutilized
32. Relapse Prevention in Primary Care
33. Return to Drinking After Liver Transplantation for Alcoholic Liver Disease
34. Screening Can Decrease Teen Risk Behaviors
35. Spiritual Awakening for Recovery
36. Spirituality and Helping in Alcoholics Anonymous
37. Strategies for Dealing With Denial
38. Symptoms of alcoholism
39. The Aging Alcoholic
40. THE DRY DRUNK
41. Therapeutic Alliance
42. Treatment and twelve-step strategies
43. TSF Description
44. Twelve Step recovery is spiritual
45. TWELVE STEPS TO RECOVERY FROM BURNOUT
46. UK Alcohol and Drug Professional Training
47. What about partners of alcoholics?
48. What About This Spiritual Awakening Thing
49. What is Brief-TSF?

• 12-Step Recovery Theory and Application
• AA attendance was best predictor of abstinence
• AA Fact File
• AA Membership
• Al-Anon offers new life
• Alcohol Abuse in Older People
• Alcohol Metabolization
• Alcoholics Anonymous
• Alcoholics can benefit from Al-Anon
• Alcoholism and Personality Disorders
• Alcoholism is also Genetic
• ALCOHOLISM MYTHS
• Anti-craving Naltrexone Injection Reduce
• Asking about drinking
• Beyond Codependency
• Brief-TSF Description
• Combined AA & Treatment for Addicted Physicians
• COUNSELOR CHARACTERISTICS
• Craving Reduction
• Dual dependence
• EFFECTIVE PROFESSIONAL INTERVENTIONS
• Effects of gambling addiction
• Free Inhalant Abuse Education
• Lesbian Alcoholics were Unloved
• Lesbians, Alcoholism & Depression
• Management of substance-abuse disorders
• Process of Recovery from Alcoholism
• Return to Drinking After Liver Transplantation
• ROLE OF SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
• Strategies for Dealing with Common Problems
• Strategies for Dealing With Denial
• Symptoms of alcoholism
• The Aging Alcoholic
• THE DRY DRUNK
• Treatment and twelve-step strategies
• TSF Description
• Twelve Step recovery is spiritual
• TWELVE STEPS TO RECOVERY FROM BURNOUT