Death from overdose is the leading cause of unintentional death in America. With so many people overdosing, and relapses occurring, too much money is being spent on treatment. To prevent relapse and the misuse of this medicine, further treatment needs to be pushed on to patients. When being released from the hospital, after overdosing, all they are given is a paper with treatment options. This does nothing.…
I agree with Quinone’s statement that doctors need to refrain from prescribing mass amount of highly-addictive pain-killing medicines to their patients. However, I do not think that just by decreasing the amount of these medicines prescribe would decrease the people’s dependence on it significantly. Since people who are already taking these medicines are usually already addicted, when they are in pain because of not getting their drug, they would do everything that they could in order to obtain it. Including buying them from low profile, skilled drug traffickers such as the Xalisco Boys. That in turn would support and promote the business of these drug traffickers and would make drug addiction a bigger problem in the world.…
The heroin epidemic is rising at an alarming rate and cites are desperate to find a solution. The CDC reports that 27,000 people die each year due to heroin overdoses. The jails are inundated with offenders, that once released go out and use again, thus continuing a cycle of insanity without producing any solutions. More youths have succumbed to addictions involving Meth and Heroin, and many are dying as a result. No one seemed to be paying any attention until it reached epidemic proportions, or as some have suggested, become a "white middle class problem" that surpassed the poor minority populations.…
America’s Deadly Addiction Fueled by Big Pharma Over the past decade, a new drug has been circulating around the country killing millions. There are lots of names and variations of this highly addictive and dangerous drug, and it seems to be sold on almost every street corner in America to every demographic. Law enforcement has done nothing to tackle this emergent issue, and the drugs are becoming more and more prominent. Why has no one done anything about this drug ruining millions of lives?…
Difficult Detox Drug addiction and substance abuse are not only prominent with the use of ‘street drugs’, the epidemic has been increasingly present in the world of prescription medications as well, even those that are used to ‘wean’ people off of other illicit drugs. Here are a list of some of the most commonly abused prescription, or ‘legal’ drugs, and their self-detox risks. SubOxone: The intended use of SubOxone is the treatment of opiate addiction, however, many individuals develop a dependency on this ‘alternative’ as well.…
Many patients go from doctor to doctor hoping to get a higher prescription count, in order to satisfy their need to get high. All because of, once again, their doctors who decide that it’s okay to over prescribe them with this addicting drug. This is why pill shopping should be strongly regulated and restricted. Due to the addiction that these patients have, they feel the need to constantly fuel it more and more.…
Addiction is a cause of misuse and abuse. When hooked on opioids, the “addiction causes the brain to produce a below-normal level of dopamine; thus, opioids are needed by addicts not to attain a state of euphoria, but rather to achieve a normal level of dopamine” (Adamec). This means that when someone is addicted to opioids, they don’t feel as happy as they did when they weren’t addicted, and they need opioids to reach that normal level of dopamine. This leads to people with addictions misusing the drugs and constantly trying to get more of the opioids, whether its from their doctor or from an illegal source. Another cause of abuse is the overprescription of the drug.…
When Danielle Spisak was left unresponsive in May 2013, at the Tri-point Medical Center in Concord from a heroin overdose, her acquaintance failed to call 911 before fleeing the scene. That day Mrs. Spisak was pronounced dead. As these heroin related deaths continue to rise this is becoming a concern for failing to seek medical attention at the scene of an overdose. Spisak, 22, a resident of Concord was at her acquaintances home when she was lethally injected with heroin.…
Opioids have been used in pharmaceutical drugs as a painkiller. Opioids are in medications like morphine, hydrocodone and oxycodone, which have been praised for their effectiveness for patients suffering extreme pain However, there have been downsides to using opioids in drugs. The use of opioids has lead to addictions and to deaths in the United States. After people take opioids as a painkiller, they can become addicted to the drug. This addiction they get can lead them deeper into addiction or even death.…
As users continue to use the product, the tolerance for the drug increases, which ultimately leads to high dose dependence that can result in overdose. If no solutions are found regarding this epidemic, many…
It has made it possible for the doctors now that they will be able to prescribe the drugs. And protest or debate on or against diseases by looking over the facts and the pros and cons of the different types of medication. The different types of drugs and medications have made it easier and possible for people who can't have some medications to actually be approved. It opens up a wide variation and a bigger difference and way more and bigger possibilities.…
When people think of drug abuse in America they usually think of a heroin addict stabbing a needle into their arm, but Americans often tend to overlook the opioid epidemic’s place in suburban atmospheres. St. Louis County ranks nearly four times the national average for heroin related deaths in the country, and at the center of this is Kirkwood. From the outside Kirkwood looks to be the perfectly stereotypical suburban neighborhood. However, this is not necessarily true. Kirkwood High School has received national media coverage due to multiple heroin related deaths in the high school since 2014.…
Science and technology has grown exponentially in recent years, issues such as heart disease and diabetes that once required surgery are now regulated with medicine. It has become routine for doctors to prescribe medicine because it is the easiest solution. Medication is the most efficient way to take care of illness, but what happens if we are prescribing too much? “Prescription painkillers kill six times more people each year than heroin does” (Wen). This harrowing statistic is why over prescription needs to stop.…
(Smith 70). Another solution that has been investigated is creating a pill an abusive resistant formula for these medications, “ensuring the relatively steady release of medicine into the bloodstream instead of the rapid surge preferred by abusers achieves treatment goals while frustrating attempts at getting high” (DuPont 130). Prescription drug abuse is a big concern for not only being tackled at the national level, but also the individual states. At the state level, “strategies to address this complex problem have included: establishing and strengthening prescription drug monitoring programs, regulating pain management facilities, and establishing dosage thresholds above which a consult with a pain specialist is required” (Garcia 4). Many other agencies such as the American Society for Addiction Medicine have…
Herbal Medicine is also called Botanical medicine or Phytomedicine, that refers to using a plant’s root, seed, leaves, or flower for Medicinal purposes. Herbal medicine is used to treat many conditions such as allergies, migraine, chronic fatigue etc. Uses Practitioners often combine herbs together to make it more effective. When recommending herbs, health care providers must always be careful.…