CASE PRESENTATION

A. SUBTANCE ABUSE HISTORY

The client Tammy Harris is a Twenty-year old white female, she stared drinking at age sixteen. She stated that their had been no other drug use until the last year when she began to use Xanax. The Client has stated that the Xanax and the drinking help her sleep so she does not think of her recent divorce from a two year marriage. The drinking stared socially and the became a way to cope, from a few beers on the weekend to a twelve pack a day. The client stated that the doctor prescribed her xanax to help her relax, then she could not live without it. She began taking several a day. When the scrip ran out she visited another doctor to get another script. In the last two months she has taken ten to fifteen xanax a day along with drinking ten to twelve beers a day.

Tammy has expressed that she would like to just be happy. She was admitted into out care from County General Hospital due to a drug overdose.

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