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Question

1. Diabetes mellitus is a complex metabolic disorder that disrupts the body's ability to produce or use insulin. In chapter 26, some basic facts about diabetes mellitus are presented. Your patient is a 67-year-old female who has been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. She states that she is having some problems managing her diabetes.

What are some special problems that older adults may have with drug therapy?

What factors are involved in the "juggling and balancing" of diabetes?

2. One of the most common mental health conditions is anxiety. Discuss how anxiety can affect a person's daily life, common medicinal treatment options, and the dangers of the medications.

3. Discuss the possible ways pregnancy can be prevented. You can discuss either gender and pharmaceutical and nonpharmaceutical techniques.

4. Why is it important to assess a patient and the medication to be administered, when it comes to dispensing non-parenteral and parenteral medications? Start off with a general discussion, then finish with 1 specific example.

5. Discuss the warning signs of substance abuse in the workplace. What kinds of substances do you think are being abused in society?

6. Prescription drug abuse is becoming an epidemic in the United States. Describe some of this abuse and the problems it poses for the patient, their families, and society as a whole.

8. What are the signs and symptoms of alcohol withdrawal? How can this affect a person in society?