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You are working with a woman who regularly uses injection drugs and often wakes up in places she does not know. The blackouts she experiences cause her anxiety and depression, which then leads to her continued drugs use. What conversation would you have with her?

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00:01 Okay, this question says your client says that she has been taking antidepressants for three weeks and has not noted a difference.
00:09 What do you tell her? well, remember that some antidepressant medications need to have two to four weeks of use in order to see changes in a person or in the patient, okay? but also some other antidepressants may need from six to eight weeks in order to see some changes.
00:32 Okay, so in this case, this patient has three weeks of using these antidepressants, so maybe this patient needs to continue treatment up to reaching four weeks or maybe eight weeks in order to start seeing some changes...
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