Opioid

“How to Help Someone with an Opioid Addiction” is a essay shared by Kelly Gallagher. The author explains how to help someone with an opioid addiction. He provides evidence, reasoning, and appeals to emotion. I’m using this these topics because it shows the author explaining how to help someone with an addiction. The overall meaning of this article is to teach someone how to help someone else with an opioid addiction. How to help them to become sober, how to find treatments, to help prevent the…

Naloxone’s Role In Opioid Overdose Prevention In 2013 an estimated 16,000 American citizens died from an opioid overdose (CDC, 2014). This number has also quadrupled since 2001, when opioid overdoses had only amounted to 4,000 deaths a year (NIDA, 2015). Nurses Saving Lives aims to educate Doctors, Policy makers and the general public on Naloxone and its life saving abilities to counteract the harmful effects of an opioid overdose that have often led to death. We believe that with the right…

Currently in the United States, prescription opioid abuse is at an extremely high epidemic level. Prescription opioid abuse is at a peak due to the fact they are easily obtainable. The abusers themselves can either be prescribed the painkiller, their friends or family members may be prescribed, or they can purchase these medications on the street from dealers who are trying to make a quick buck. A major role of community health nurses today is to prevent the spread of illness and disease.…

MODULE IV Discussion I There are hundreds of opioid conversion calculators available online, though they are not all of good quality. I would like to direct you to one of the opioid conversion calculators that I find to be most useful and evidence based. Locatehttp://opioidcalculator.practicalpainmanagement.com/ and complete 2 opioid conversions of your choice and read the description of your "answer." Discuss your experience with this calculator as compared to others you have used in the…

same time? Tapedaily answers this question by going into extra detail about each drug. Hopefully, this will help put your mind, and your aches and pains, at ease.Can You Take Ibuprofen and Paracetamol at the Same Time Know Your Painkillers (Opioids And Non-Opioids) There are two major groups of painkillers — each of them is prescribed according to the level of pain.…

Treatment vs. Incarceration for Opioid Abuse There are more than 15 million Americans that suffer from opioid abuse disorder (WHO,2014). This paper looks at treatment options verses incarceration. Out of the 2 million people in federal and state prison more than one-quarter of them suffer from drug abuse (Common Sense for Drug Policy, 2016). What is more astonishing is that most of them do not receive the treatment they need to recover from their opiate addiction. There are many treatment…

Opioid Antidote and Overdose Prevention Act New Jersey Legislation Assembly No. 2082 Nicholas Faraldi 12/4/2014 Description of the Act and Sponsorship The Overdose Prevention Act was last amended January 14th of 2013. The act was created to protect witnesses to overdoses so they could help someone who is overdosing with immunity from any prosecution. The act also encourages the use of naloxone or other opioid blockers to healthcare professionals to prevent the deaths of opioid…

Complications of Long Term Opioid Dependence Limited Toxicities? Even though supportive studies may indicate that there are no chronic toxicities directly related to the use of opioids, and Maisto, Galizio, and Connors (2015) report that when following the prescribed dosage there is limited liability of abuse, complications associated with their long term use is evident. Minozzi, Amato, and Davoli (2013) claim that routine opioid treatment for chronic pain does not present major risks of…

Opioids and Incarceration Incarceration of individuals is rapidly rising and the “war on drugs” has targeted opioid addicted users with no other ways of treatment other than jail time. Opioids are widely used for people with legitimate problems and the easy accessibility is making it possible for people of all ages and race to get a hold of. The crisis of opioid epidemic is only getting bigger along with the jail population. Anything from Xanax to Codeine can be easily attainable for the…

A long period of addiction to opioids in the country has been due to a large supply being sold behind the counter and behind the taco bell at three am. The spread of these opioids has been so bad not even the FDA has expected them. In a article written by Susan Okie, M.D, she stated that, “FDA officials have been scrambling to revise their proposed Risk…