As a little girl, I was always fascinated with teeth. Since I could remember, I knew I was going to be a dentist when I grew up. What interested me the most is how every single time I was lying in the dentist’s chair watching about four or five tools go inside my mouth at a time and I would not feel a thing. Of course it was the fact that I was numbed from cheek to cheek, but I was fascinated by the drugs given to patients in order for dentists to perform these painful dental surgeries on the soft tissues of someone’s teeth, bone, and oral cavity.
In the dental world, patients go through surgeries from root canals to getting their wisdom teeth removed and even to jaw surgeries. Patients are prescribed hydrocodone after these dental surgeries as a pain reliever. Hydrocodone is a very strong drug that is roughly equal to morphine. This drug was a perfect, effective drug against pain up until it was found that it is the most addictive of prescription drugs. Hydrocodone is the most prescribed drug in America up until October of 2014 when the DEA, or Drug Enforcement …show more content…
This appeal to logos can be found when statistics are used in this text. For instance, the article includes a chart from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that shows the increasing deaths related to prescription opioids in the U.S. from 2000 to 2010. The total number of deaths by the end of 2010 is 16,651 due to addiction of the prescribed drug. Figures show that no other class of drugs is responsible for that many deaths, legal or illegal. Radnofsky and Walker use logos in reaching out to the patients who will be affected by this law in a positive way by giving exact numbers and research. This appeal to logos proves that tighter restrictions on hydrocodone means less patients becoming addicted to their prescription and prevents he or she from leading to their
In the dental world, patients go through surgeries from root canals to getting their wisdom teeth removed and even to jaw surgeries. Patients are prescribed hydrocodone after these dental surgeries as a pain reliever. Hydrocodone is a very strong drug that is roughly equal to morphine. This drug was a perfect, effective drug against pain up until it was found that it is the most addictive of prescription drugs. Hydrocodone is the most prescribed drug in America up until October of 2014 when the DEA, or Drug Enforcement …show more content…
This appeal to logos can be found when statistics are used in this text. For instance, the article includes a chart from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that shows the increasing deaths related to prescription opioids in the U.S. from 2000 to 2010. The total number of deaths by the end of 2010 is 16,651 due to addiction of the prescribed drug. Figures show that no other class of drugs is responsible for that many deaths, legal or illegal. Radnofsky and Walker use logos in reaching out to the patients who will be affected by this law in a positive way by giving exact numbers and research. This appeal to logos proves that tighter restrictions on hydrocodone means less patients becoming addicted to their prescription and prevents he or she from leading to their