Self-Diagnosis-Overview
Self Diagnosis Overview provides a range of assessment. Patients with drug or alcohol problems are frequently identified when they present with symptoms that may be drug related, or at a well person's check or other screening program, but many will refer themselves because they, their relatives or their employers have become concerned about their drinking or drug use.
Self Diagnosis Approach 1:
Drug abuse or dependence when a patient:
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Presents with social problems, such as marital or sexual problems (including domestic violence), difficulties at work, legal or financial problems
Self Diagnosis Approach 2:
Drug abuse or dependence when a patient:
Presents with psychiatric problems, such as irritability or rage states, anxiety, depression, hallucinations, insomnia, repeated accidents or trauma (including repeated episodes of deliberate self-harm), or a decline in usual standards of social concern and personal care
Self Diagnosis Approach 3:
Drug abuse or dependence when a patient:
Simply requests anxiolytic, hypnotic, antidepressant or analgesic medication, or a medical certificate
Self Diagnosis Approach 4:
Drug abuse or dependence when a patient:
Has a history of frequent consultations with several different doctors ("doctor-shopping").
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