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Ron Sims – Guest speaker Ron Sims was the guest speaker this week from the Oklahoma County Crisis Intervention Center. From what I learned the facility is fairly new and is located in downtown Oklahoma City. The center treats adults only and has a 16 bed locked co-ed unit which will serve as inpatient treatment, as well as an emergency unit which can keep their patients for up to 24 hours. The Crisis Center helps people in mental illness crises and drug/substance abuse. There are a couple different types of detox that they use for their patients who are coming off of drugs. They usually use a step-down method, in which a nurse would slowly taper the patient off of the abused substance, as well as situational detox. This type is mainly for …show more content…

These situations can be a drug overdose, suicide attempt, mental break down, and so on. In 2011 I was an involuntary patient at the Oklahoma County Crisis Intervention Center. I stayed a little over a week after a failed suicide attempt. I was the only woman in the unit who was a suicide attempt, and there was only one other man. There were probably 20+ other people who were detoxing from different drugs and substances. I had no knowledge of drug abuse so coming in still drunk and drugged up from the attempt was quite scary, especially because I was the youngest patient they had in the adult unit. The other male suicide attempt was about my age and the only other person that I could relate to at that time, and he would eventually become my boyfriend just a few weeks after we both were discharged. I also got to talk to a lot of other addicts. There was a PCP user, quite a few opioid abusers, and a couple of heroin addicts. I learned a lot about these drugs which I was clueless about before, and it helped me understand what these people were thinking. Being a former patient of the facility will definitely help me in my career field to understand those who are going through crises. I now know a lot more about drug and alcohol abuse as well as different mental

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