America has faced many problems from civil wars to social issues. This time America is facing a different type of problem. A opioid epidemic. It isn’t the first time there has been a drug problem either, but this could be the most deadly one of them all. There are tons of facts and other things people don’t know about opioids that they should know and be aware of. We all need to be educated and aware of this problem in […]
Abstract Over the past year, 3.6 percent of adolescents have misused opioids. Opioids are a class of drugs that interact with opioid receptors on nerve cells in the body and the brain. Opioids are used to treat pain, cough, and diarrhea. Opioids come in tablet forms and are usually distributed by doctors, these pills should be taken for a short period of time. Opioids are also known as, OxyContin, hydrocodone, codeine, fentanyl, and morphine. Opioids produce euphoria which helps with […]
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Get help with your assignmentImagine feeling extremely uncomfortable because it has been several days without any of your drug fixes and you start shaking uncontrollably, but way more is yet to come. Next, you start becoming more irritable, stressed, and anxious. Then, you start getting intensely hot and sweaty which is followed by profuse vomiting. This is what it feels like to go through opioid addiction withdrawal. It is known that there are multiple stories surrounding the current opioid crisis on the news daily. […]
Prescription drugs have valid medical purpose and are crucial for the health of the American people. However, the over-prescription of drugs by physicians presents a serious danger to a person’s health. The Uniform Prescription Drug Monitoring Program and Opioid Abuse Reduction Act is designed to reduce the availability of Opioids and fund the research to create non-addictive pain medication. This bill seeks to create a national database to monitor and regulate over prescription. Not to mention, the act will fund […]
It is a known fact that drug overdose deaths are on the rise. Based on research I have read, most addicts say they started with pills, turn to heroin and die from the synthetic opioid painkiller fentanyl. Opioids are too accessible; there are other effective alternative pain managements that are almost never discussed as a treatment option. Other medications like Ibuprofen (Motrin), Acetaminophen (Tylenol) and Naproxen (Advil) are good effective options. Discussing these options and implementing them would drop the […]
In the book Dreamland, by Sam Quinones, Quinones tries to strengthen our inadequate classroom focus on opioid addiction, and pain management. The teaching of these topics are limited across U.S. medical schools. Yet, in the past year, the subject matter of opioid addiction has come up many times. Throughout Quinones’s book, he weaves together two national stories that collide in Ohio, in the small city of Portsmouth. Quinones tracks the rush of heroin harvested in Mexico, while at the same […]
There is an opioid epidemic going on in America and no one really knows who to blame, but the culprits may not be the actual drug user but pharmaceutical companies and doctors. Most people believe that it’s the addicts fault they are addicted to drugs. People also believe that the drug companies are to blame for the opioid epidemic. Although most people blame the addicts, they are not all to blame for the epidemic. In fact, there are a combination […]
In 1665 one of the worst plagues to ever hit mankind had come to an end and had been defeated by the human race when a vaccine was discovered to stop the spread of it. It went by the name of “the black death” and swept through Europe and Asia in the 1340s killing nearly 25 million people. The disease was a bacterial strain called Yersinia pestis, which is commonly found in animals throughout the world such as mice, rats, […]
Tamera was very career and family orientated and maintained a happy lifestyle while taking care of her son. Overtime she began to suffer from severe headaches and was prescribed opioid medication to help ease the pain. She began taking larger doses of medication to receive the same effects she once had and was continuously written prescriptions by several different doctors. Once her prescriptions ran out, she began purchasing pills on the street as a cheaper alternative. Tamera lost her home, […]
In our research out group has identified the following problems that affect healthcare, the opioid epidemic, health disparities in minorities, specifically organ and bone marrow donation, prescription drug abuse, and lack of fertility insurance coverage. We will provide a more detailed discussion throughout this brief. The opioid epidemic dates all the way back to the 1980’s when the government loosened restrictions against prescribing pain medications. Since then physicians have been overprescribing opioids as a way for patients to deal with […]
Introduction The opioid crisis has become a growing concern in the United States. Due to the increased availability, either legally or otherwise, of these highly potent substances, the number of people overdosing on opioids has substantially increased over the last couple of years. While there have been numerous efforts by stakeholders in the medical community, law enforcement and Government to curb the spread of this epidemic, a lot remains to be done. This paper will examine the opioid crisis in […]
The Opioid epidemic has plagued America as a medical health crisis for the past thirty years. The crisis began in the early 1990s and has since occurred in three separate waves (Liu, Pei, & Soto, 2018). The first wave appeared in 1991 as doctors became unaware of how highly addictive the painkillers were that they were prescribing to their patients for pain management (Liu, Pei, & Soto, 2018). The second wave began in 2010 as many people began to die […]
Opioids on Campuses College is where to specialize your skillset to compete in this globalized market. Unfortunately, the reputations of United States colleges are being disturbed by the opioid crisis. Young adults are more likely to overdose now than in any recorded time. This graph shows the number of opioid-related overdose deaths in Indiana from 1999-2016. In 2016, there were 794 opioid-related overdose deaths: 304 involved synthetic opioids, 297 involved heroin, and 262 involved prescription opioids. Categories are not mutually exclusive […]
Twenty seconds is all it took to kill 19-year-old Dustin Manning. His devastated parents,said the toxicology report found he had taken a toxic mix of heroin and fentanyl, a synthetic opioid so powerful it’s fatal.”the amount of fentanyl in his body was equivalent to 3 grains of salt. Less than an hour later, at 6:53am, another phone call was placed to 911. Half a mile down the road, 18-year-old, Joseph Abraham was found slumped on his floor by his parents. […]
Opioids is classified as a drug substance that could produce feelings of pleasure and pain relief, such as morphine. There are many different types of opioid used for pain or recreational usage such as Heroin, Fentanyl, and morphine. These drugs all trace back to a single plant known as the Opium Poppy which dates to the early human civilization in ancient Mesopotamia. The history of the opioid epidemic began near 1990’s when a sudden rapid increase of overdosing on prescription […]
Throughout mankind, humans have experimented with drugs for a vast assortment of purposes. While some people use drugs for recreational use, most of the population will consume them for pain management. During the early 19th century, when Friedrich Sertümer isolated an active alkaloid in opium, known as morphine and pharmaceutical companies started to flood the market with morphine, the U.S developed its first opioid epidemic. Fast-forward to the present time, with the advances in chemistry and pharmacology (science of drugs […]
The opioid crisis began during the 1990s and during this time pharmaceutical companies took the opportunity to push the doctors to prescribe their drugs. The doctors lacking the resources and time to find the solution of the multiplex pain problems of their patients thought that prescribing pills was an easier fix. According to, pain specialist Sean Mackey; opioids should not be a first-line treatment due to the dangerous risks. Over time, the misuse of prescription painkillers led to the misuse […]
Our country is currently facing an opioid overdose epidemic. This is posing a serious risk on the life of many people. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has taken the initiative to educate clinicians on the risks of prescribing opioids for the treatment of chronic pain as well as other alternatives available for the management of pain. For this paper, I have selected the module “CDD Recommendations for Non-opioids Treatments in the Management of Chronic Pain”. These recommendations […]
The Opioid Epidemic [will include intro later]. Although opioids can be necessary and beneficial for people, the increasing corruption and presence of the opioid crisis have led to the public’s safety inevitably declining over time. With the increasing use of opioids in the United States leading to a greater presence in the black market, many are turning to it for prescription opioids. Lisa McElhaney, president of the National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators, described how fentanyl, often times made to […]
The United States is In a heavy opioid problem nationwide and the over-prescription of this drug is being wasted. Citizens of the nation have become dependent on the prescription of this highly addictive drug that can be found everywhere, prescribed from the Experient medics for surgical or chronic pain; or stealing medications from others, or buying them illegally on the streets. Later addicts start to experiment with a more dangerous drugs for example heroin because it’s easier to obtain and […]
A vast number of doctors and writers have detailed the origins of the opioid crisis. However, there are some disagreements as to the true root cause of the crisis. Teresa A. Rummans M.D., a psychiatrist at the Mayo Clinic, details how the good intentions of doctors have been a major cause of the opioid crisis in her article in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings, “How Good Intentions Contributed to Bad Outcomes: The Opioid Crisis.” Nabarun Dasgupta PhD, MPH, is a senior […]
Of the many phenomena described as “epidemic” throughout history, the opioid crisis stands apart from the rest (Porucznik, et. al). Unlike the plague, yellow fever, smallpox, or cholera, opioids are administered willingly, taking advantage of the weak and the addicted (Weiss-Burke). However, the nature of such an epidemic does not weaken its effects; the elusive nature allows it to be mishandled by prescribed patients and abused thereafter with ease (Weiss-Burke). The opioid crisis has grown a web of complications, from […]
Opioids claim more than 40,000 lives each year. More than seventy-five percent of these deaths result from an overdose on fentanyl and other synthetic opioids (Mann, 2018). Unfortunately, the danger of opioids was unknown to the general public and health community in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Opioids are highly addictive and create brain abnormalities after long-term use. Increased prescription of opioid medications such as Oxycontin and Morphine lead to chemical dependence, which can result in the abuse of […]
Researchers Haggai Sharon, Adi Maron-Katz, Eti Ben Simon, Yuval Flusser, Talma Hendler, Ricardo Tarrasch, and Silviu Brill aimed to examine whether mindfulness meditation-induced analgesia involves endogenous opioids. Previous studies supported the advantageous effects that mindfulness meditation had on pain perception (Zeidan et al., 2011). However, the mechanisms behind the meditation-induced analgesia had not been adequately studied or understood (Sharon et al., 2016). Sharon’s research team sought to expand on this researchthey sought to uncover the underlying neural mechanisms by using […]
Consider the following scenario: It’s a hectic day in the Emergency Room (ER) and the nurses are short-staffed. A patient with a history of drug seeking is omitted to the ER and demands a narcotic to ease his back pain. The nurse who is taking care of him is irritated and yells at the patient stating, you’re nothing but a drug addict! The nurse administers the drug but continues to be rude and condescending. When the nurse gets off her […]
I will advocate for the change in pain management to prevent prescription drug misuse at the Georgia state level; to add, pill mill laws should be used in conjunction with prescription management systems (Lainie & Vernick, 2017). According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse line graph (NIH) (2018), there was a percentage of 8.8 (NIH, 2018) deaths, which were caused by opiate overdosage in 2016 (NIH, 2018). Moreover, prescription management systems are used to monitor the distribution of pain […]
A philosophy is a statement of belief about something. Humans, their health, and the environment in which they live and function are phenomena of particular interest to nursing. Learning to reflect critically on one’s practice requires considerable effort. It is also essential to being an excellent practitioner. Being able to think about and to explain your beliefs about the basic concepts of your practice provides the framework for your practice. Do remember that what you write today is not written […]
