Naloxone

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 options available one that is looked at here is Naloxone, which is an opiate antagonist. It reverses the effects of opiates as well as helps those who overdose from opiates. Many factors are looked in this paper such as social impacts, treatment methods,…

authorities should focus on widely distributing Naloxone or focus on committing an effort toward more accessible treatment centers. On one hand, some authorities advocate that making Naloxone widely available is crucial because Naloxone significantly lowers deaths by overdose. On the other hand, however, others, such as Geoff Mulvihill and Michael Sisak argue in their article “Recovery After Overdoses: Stopping Heroin’s Revolving Door” that Naloxone hasn’t lowered addiction rates. They suggest…

Naloxone is an antidote that negates opioids almost instantly (“Narcan | Naloxone | The Opiate Antidote to Save a Life,” 2016). This reverses all of the effects of an opioid and is used in emergency situations in which an overdose occurs. This antidote is injected directly into a muscle, under the skin or into a vein through an IV (“Narcan | Naloxone | The Opiate Antidote to Save a Life,” 2016). Injections are made every two…

for OOD and treatment of opioid addiction in adults is very important. Naloxone is a drug used to treat a narcotic overdose in an emergency situation.…

saline, or naloxone (or in the terms they put it in a drug that would help with the pain, a something that wouldn’t help or hurt, and a drug that would increase the pain) at 3 hours after the surgery and 4 hours after the surgery and pain would be recorded and compared on the visual scale. Instead, researchers focused strictly on those receiving the placebo saline and naloxone. After the surgery, at 3 hours, the patients were randomly in double blind conditions given either naloxone or a…

chemicals and pharmaceuticals, the use of naloxone, and the education of health professionals to associated risks. To start with, the multiple cases of overdose need to be prevented and treated, which is usually done by administrating naloxone to the patient. “Naloxone is a medicine that reverses overdoses due to opioid, such as fentanyl, and can save lives in overdose situations.” (CCSA, 2015, p.1) Thus, an important measure of prevention of mortality is to make naloxone kits available and…

GI and lower levels of the metabolite Norbuprenorphine [7] The increase in bioavailability compared with sublingual tablets also reduces the total quantity of drug needed in the formulation by half. Coupled with the withdrawal inducing effect of naloxone if injected, makes this formulation one with a very low abuse potential. In terms of patient use, the BEMA film is easy to use, offers discreet placement, allows patients to talk while the film is adhered to the cheek and has a pleasant citrus…

Fentanyl is a pharmaceutical drug in a class of drugs called opioids. Initially, fentanyl was used in the 1960s for severe pain and surgical procedures. Nowadays fentanyl is used for patients with chronic pain. Majority of fentanyl users are in their late twenties all way down to age 14. About 0.5 to 1 percent of fentanyl users die annually. In 2015, close to 300 people died from fentanyl in Alberta. Fentanyl used in the streets is illegally prepared in clandestine laboratories. Since fentanyl…

As a trauma nurse, I frequently encounter patients who are in agonizing acute pain. Many times it is the first time in their lives they have faced such pain. The health care team strives to manage their pain properly, but a careful balance is required while considering the effects of long-term opioid use. Health care providers must be considerate of the weaning process and monitoring patients to make sure addiction does not occur, especially in patients with a history of substance abuse.…

Why is spinal cord injury considered an orphan disease? It affects a relatively small amount of people How do functional abilities differ in quadriplegia and paraplegia? Quadriplegia occurs when there is a spinal cord injury in the neck. It affects the sensory and motor information going to all four limbs. If the injury occurs in the thoracic spinal cord, the arms are okay but the patient is paralyzed from that point down. That is called paraplegia. Both quadriplegia and paraplegia can be…