Drug overdose

ranks second in drug overdose deaths driven by a significant rise in heroin, which has tripled, and fentanyl usage, which has increased 80% since 2014 (The Ohio Council, 2016). Marijuana usage (64.7%), heroin (4.3%), methamphetamine (15.5%), cocaine (22.6%), and other hard drugs (24.5%) by Franklin residents is alarming and surpasses the state rates (City-data, n.d.). Prescription opioids such as methadone, oxycodone, and hydrocodone have contributed to the rise in unintentional drug…

Drug addiction is a major issue in today’s society and over the past several years has become an epidemic all over the nation. Ohio ranked twelfth in the nation in 2013 for drug related fatalities (Trust for America’s Health, 2015). There were 2,110 fatalities due to unpremeditated overdoses in Ohio in 2013. Cuyahoga County accounts for 255 of those fatalities (Ohio Department of Health, 2015). This epidemic is so significant that there is a Healthy People 2020 objective to reduce drug-induced…

acknowledge the outcomes from the drug opioids, as a crisis. Preventable measures could have been taken before the problem of opioids became a national disaster. Health wise, those who are the most impacted would be palliative care patients due to their need of opioids to manage pain. Consequences that have resulted from this opioid crisis essentially consists of multiple deaths…

similar ways in the brain, producing the same kind of euphoria and lead to the same devastating addiction. Consequently, drug dealers provided heroin as the cheaper alternative for prescription opioid addicts desperate for the next fix. Heroin is cheaper and easier to find than pain pills, so addicts naturally turned to this illegal drug to fuel their dependency. As such, drug cartels seized an opportunity to meet the demand with supplies of cheap heroin…

are creating an addiction that seems to be growing out of control and law and health officials do not know how to control it. Since 1990 drug overdose rates have tripled in the United States, accounting for nearly 15,000 deaths alone in 2008 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] , 2011). According to the CDC (2011) one hundred people die from overdose every day in the United States. In 2010 alone more than 2 million people used prescription opioids for no medical reasons (CDC,…

The most notable gaps I’ve seen in addiction recovery treatments for women are a lack of connection and a lack of assisted social reintegration. As renowned speaker and author Dr. Gabor Maté explains in his lectures, the opposite of addiction is not sobriety, it’s connection. Women need to make real connections, both spiritually and socially, before they are able to return to the pressures of an everyday life while maintaining their sobriety. Moreover, management in the recovery environment…

our world today or should we say illegal drugs in our world today?. Today all over the world there are so many types of drugs that are used to free the mind of all the pain in this world that may impact lives negatively. Not to mention many people In our world believe that a type of drug can fix there problems or at least give them some time to relax and not stress, For example in the such depressing grasping story of a “Brave New World” their world uses a drug that is referred to their so…

We all know people use drugs to escape reality or to have a good time but in reality it’s a killer. Party drugs are usually hallucinogens such as LSD or ecstasy and stimulants like cocaine, weed and amphetamines. Drug use happens everywhere especially at parties or concerts and it can be very dangerous, leading to violence and/or death. According to a survey from the Drug Info website 10.9% of Australians aged 14 years and over have used ecstasy one or more times in their life. 2.5% of…

harsh approaches have been taken in drug control. Many include finding the source of the drugs and demolishing it. This has worked in some cases but what is there was another solution that the U.S. has not considered, but is proven to work in Europe? The U.S. war on drugs has been an ongoing struggle for a very long time. This battle of drug control has two sides and they include the supporters who think that the war has failed and the U.S. needs a new strategy of drug control and the critics…

The purpose of this paper is to answer the following questions concerning the case study found in Drugs, Society and Human Behavior by Ray and Ksir (1996). Do we try to reduce the overall amount of drugs in society or to reduce the harm that drug use may inflict? What do you think the goal of drug policy should be? Is drug policy a moral issue: Is it simply wrong to allow the spread of drug use? Therefore, answering the essential questions, but also including other information to support my…