COU 640 ASAM Form ASAM DIMENSIONAL SEVERITY PROFILE

COU 640 ASAM Form

Notes/Reasons:

Dimension One: Acute intoxication and/or withdrawal potential

Anessa was born in Kensington NY and was raised by both parents. Anessa is from a family of five siblings. The experience Anesssa went through while was a painful and projected her recovery time to last into her first several months while an undergrad student. Anessa was prescribed Vicodin to help with the pain. At first, She was initially provided with 60 pills to take no more than twice daily over the first month. At first, she only took one per day. However, after one particularly bad day, Anessa consumed three a night. It was then Anessa started to develop a tolerance Anessa mentioned she “loved the way she felt”.she was convinced that It helped her to focus more in her dance career. Anessa is currently experiencing severe addiction by consuming Vicodin daily after a knee injury in her past. Anessa will benefit from seeking further treatment in order to seek long term sobriety.

Dimension Two: Biomedical conditions and complications

Anessa is currently not following a healthy regiment at this time. Anessa does not have any complications with health beside her past knee injury. Anessa is unable to perform on her knee as much compared to prior surgery. Due to her ongoing habit she continued to seek more appointment with her doctor in order to support her habbit. Later, Anessa explained her medications were done early the concerning physician refused to provide her with a new prescription. Anessa will benefit from seeing a primary care doctor to evaluate further her knee and the complications of her severe substance use.

Dimension Three: Emotional, behavioral, and cognitive conditions and complications

Anessa is really torn due to lack of activity in dancing. Anessa feels like she needs more prescription and visit different doctors because they are starting to limit her ability to refill prescriptions. Anessa became irritable and started to have anxiety due to her future with dancing, Anessa continued to seek for more script to support her habits by going to different doctor.During her search she found a doctor who prescribed her with 30 OxyContin pills for the entire month. Anessa continue to seek more prescriptions, anessa noticed she used all her resources to get new prescritions.

Dimension Four: Readiness to change

Anessa is the stage of contemplation. Anessa did not identified any triggers at this time during her session. She started sleeping in late, she was absent from school a lot, isolating from family, her eating was poor, and filled with anxiety regarding her dancing career.anessa always dream of graduating from her school. Due to her mothers concern anessa pre contemplated about coming to treatment.

Dimension Five: Due to the addcition being so strong Anessa ended up relapsing. Due to her disease being so powerful she did not quit seeking form prescription to feed her habit. Anessa was able to seek She did, however, find two different doctors and was prescribed three-month supply of hydrocodone. However, it did not take long for her six-month supply of pills to complete. Anessa habbit became stronger and required more as her system became used to the pills she later started to consume 10 to 15 pills per day.

Dimension Six: Recovery/living environment

Anessa lives with her family. After her mother noticing differences in her eating and activities she suggested that she seeks further treatment for long longterm sobriety.

Reflection: Anessa will benefit from seeking further treatment and after care to sustain long-term sobriety. Anessa will benefit from supportive system to help her and hold a firm boundary.