Case Study (Drugs of Abuse) Suzanne has come by the free "drop-in" counseling clinic where you work to get some information and advice. Suzanne is a 22-year-old single woman who has been living with her boyfriend Jack in Manhattan's lower east side for the last four years. She and Jack have been heroin addicts for as many years. When Suzanne was 10 years old, her father, whom she says was a very heavy drinker, left her mom and the kids and never came back. At 14 she started drinking and smoking marijuana. At 16 she had dropped out of high school and at 18 she moved in with Jack. He introduced her to heroin. She reports using about a 1/2 gram of heroin per day just to be able to function and feel comfortable. In order to pay for the heroin and pay the rent on their apartment, Jack doesn't work, instead, she works the streets at night. She usually drinks four or five beers each night before going out to work. If she can't score enough heroin, she will try to score either some Valium or Klonopin. to“tide me over until I can get some 'horse".She says she has tried cocaine but,"I really didn't care for the high all that much." Suzanne tells you that the alcohol and heroin help to calm her nerves and get her through the night. She and Jack are not having sex all that much. When they do make love he never wears a condom. He says that's what makes him different from her "john's" "Which is true because I won't work without a condom." Lately she has noticed that her breasts have become swollen and more tender. She also hasn't had her period in the last 12 weeks. She is pretty sure she is pregnant and knows it's her boy friends baby. However she is not sure she can stop using dope or work to have the baby even though Jack wants her to keep it. She is really confused at what she should do and is asking for you to help her make some decisions. Her friend who works with her at night told her not to stop using dope if she is pregnant “Because it's worse for the baby than to keep using.". "I just don't know what I should do?"
Classes Of Functional Groups
Organic Chemistry deals mostly with carbon and hydrogens, also called hydrocarbons, but those groups which replace hydrogen and bonds with carbon to give a characteristic nature, unique of their own, to the hydrocarbon they are attached to, are called functional groups. All the compounds belonging to a functional group undergo reactions in a similar pattern and are known to have similar physical and chemical properties.
Characteristics Of Functional Groups
In organic chemistry, we encounter a number of special substituent groups which are attached to the hydrocarbon backbone. These groups impart certain characteristics to the molecule of which it is a part of and thus, become the highlight of that particular molecule.
IUPAC Nomenclature
In Chemistry, IUPAC stands for International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry which suggested a systematic naming approach for the organic and inorganic compounds, as in the beginning stage of nomenclature one single chemical compound was named in many ways by which lead to confusion. The need for this approach aroused as the number of chemical compounds newly discovered were increasing (approximately 32 million compounds) and the basic concept of nomenclature i.e. the trivial nomenclature and the derived system of nomenclature failed to overcome the challenge. It is an important task to name a chemical compound systematically and unambiguously which reduces lots of confusion about the newly reported compounds.
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- What referrals would you give to her and in what order?


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