A nursing diagnosis may be part of the nursing process and is a clinical judgment about individual, family, or community experiences/responses to actual or potential health problems/life processes. Nursing diagnoses foster the nurse's independent practice (e.g., patient comfort or relief) compared to dependent interventions driven by physician's orders (e.g., medication administration).
The Sinclair Method. 1  The Sinclair Method (TSM) is a treatment for alcohol addiction that uses a technique called pharmacological extinctionâthe use of an opiate blocker to turn habit-forming behaviors into habit erasing behaviors. The effect returns a personâs craving for alcohol to its pre-addiction state.
Medications also exist that can assist in the treatment of alcohol use disorder. Acamprosate is a medication that reduces symptoms of protracted withdrawal and has been shown to help individuals with alcohol use disorders who have achieved abstinence go on to maintain abstinence for several weeks to months.