NCLEX-RN Complete Prep Course — Lesson 44: Substance Use Disorders: Intoxication, Withdrawal, Delirium Tremens, and Recovery

Sarah Mitchell lays out the alcohol withdrawal clock, tremors at 6 to 12 hours through delirium tremens at 48 to 72, and the CIWA-driven benzodiazepine and thiamine-before-glucose protocol that prevents it. She covers the opioid overdose triad and naloxone, stimulant intoxication and the suicidal crash that follows, the smaller substances, recovery medications like disulfiram and naltrexone, screening tools, impaired nurses, and neonatal abstinence syndrome, with two worked scenarios.

Lesson 44 of 125 in the NCLEX-RN Complete Prep Course audio course from ExamPrepRise.

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