Helping someone with Opioid The general statement made by the source Chicago Sun Times in their work, “How to Help Someone with an Opioid Addiction”, is that the key to helping someone with an Opioid addiction is to make sure you understand the situation. More specifically, the author states that being punitive makes the person not want to seek help. They write,“You don’t want to be nasty. It just makes people less receptive to treatment ”(paragraph 1).…
Saxon’s presentation concentrated on methadone and buprenorphine. According to Saxon, methadone frequently requires once daily dosing for treatment of opioid addiction, however, two doses are sometimes necessary in rare circumstances (Tai et al., 2013). With buprenorphine, the dosing is more flexible. Both medications reduce mortality rates and improve other outcomes, which could include unauthorized opioid use and human immunodeficiency virus risk behavior (Tai et al., 2013). In Dr. Walter Ling’s presentation, he stated that the explanation for the methadone approach to treating opioid addiction was originally based on the extinction model of animal experimentation (Tai et al., 2013).…
10 Thesis / Research Question: Are opioids a beneficial treatment option for cancer patients? I. Introduction: Interesting opening remarks to grab the reader?s attention: quote, short story, startling statistics Thesis: What question are you exploring in this paper and why is it important to research? What is the answer to your thesis question (Are opioids a beneficial treatment option for cancer patients?)?…
The effort to define a problem by identifying its causes rests on a certain conception of cause. Causes are objective and can be proved by scientific. For example, as Dr. Adams to answer the question of Mr. Murphy, he said “it is a significant problem in parts of our state, and that is why we need to have a larger conversant about medication-assisted treatment and what it can and cannot do” (pg.22) In this case, handle buprenorphine is the key cause to lead this problem. Because of the Drug Enforcement Administration, buprenorphine is the third most seized prescription opiate by law enforcement.…
Abstinence-based treatment of opioid addiction utilizes substance abuse therapy, but not medications, to aid in the treatment of addiction to opioids. Addict is shorthand for opioid addict. For example, the statement “Some addicts abuse heroin” is the same as saying “Some opioid addicts abuse heroin.” The word ‘addict’ derives from the Latin word ‘addictus,’ which means to become a slave (http://bit.ly/20Isq0N). Addiction is shorthand for opioid addiction.…
Opioid abuse epidemic in the United States has been growing steadily over the last few years. However, today, it has reached to levels that cannot be, or rather shouldn't be ignored by anyone. Opiod abuse epidemic has affected millions of Americans till now. It is estimated that every 19 minutes, an individual dies in the country because of opioid abuse, indicating that it's time to act real fast.…
Opioids are among most abused high addictive medications in the USA; mainly they are used to relief pain. Opioids are an umbrella that covers many different drug substances, both natural and synthetic. Opiates are alkaloid compounds naturally found in the opium poppy plant. It has been used for numerous different reasons such as medical, recreational, and religious. Historians reference the opium discovery and use is in 3400 B.C. when the opium poppy was cultivated in lower Mesopotamia, modern-day southern Iraq and Syria and Iran.…
Addiction to pain killers: Opioids The word addiction, according to the Merriam – Webster dictionary means, a strong and harmful need to regularly have or do something. For example, taking drugs, gambling, alcohol, sex and more. This specific essay gives information about being addicted to pain killers (opioids).…
Opiate Addiction: Understanding Replacement Therapy An informal lecture by Scott Farnum, Administrator, Acadia Hospital in Bangor, Maine. Scott talked about how opioids have been around between three and five thousand years. The different opioids lift your mood, helps you feel motivated and pain relief. The natural opiates are more stimulating.…
An Opioid is a medication that lessens pain; this is achieved by reducing the intensity of pain signals from the central nervous system’s location, inside the amygdala, which controls emotion which will decrease the effects of pain slowly. An example of these types of medication is Hydrocodone, Oxycodone, Morphine, Codeine, and other drugs with related functions. They are often prescribed for a variety of painful conditions as well as before and after surgery. However, all of these are used recreationally and have entirely different names for each one. Their prescription names are: “Actiq, Duragesic, Sublimaze, OxyContin, Percodan, Percocet, Tylox, Dilaudid” (“What Are Opioids?…
Jeremy Hsu proposes a drug alternative in medical marijuana that he describes in his article “Can Medical Cannabis Break the Painkiller Epidemic?” where he interprets a study conducted at the Medical Center in New York City finding states who legalized medical marijuana had significantly fewer opioid related deaths annually than those where it remains illegal. (Hsu 2) While the limitations of medical cannabis are also explained within this article, it does provide hope for advancements that could reduce opioid abuse by finding replacement…
Conclusion Already, the President, governors, government organizations and researchers have started to take steps to understand and deter the abuse of opioid addiction. The Associated Press released a statement that President Donald Trump is promising to increase efforts to fight against the country's opioid addiction epidemic. President Trump has been quoted saying that his administration wants "to help people who have become so badly addicted" (AP, 2017). The president announced a new commission to fight against the opioid epidemic at an event Wednesday at the White House with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie leading it (AP, 2017).…
Recently, marijuana and prescription medications have been vigorously debated since numerous states in the United States have legalized medicinal marijuana, and in a recent event in the world, Uruguay legalized marijuana and the government regulates and sells it. Many marijuana researchers are saying that marijuana could end the need for most prescription drugs because marijuana can help with such a diverse amount of illnesses and diseases. Marijuana, compared to prescription medications from a medicinal standpoint, has no harmful side effects, marijuana also helps with a wide range of problems and users on marijuana can't overdose contrasted to the numerous prescription pills Americans overdose or die on every year. Recently, many cases of patients who use prescription painkillers have switched to marijuana because of the side effects of painkillers are much worse than what…
Marijuana should be legalized in the United States on a federal level for all purposes. Regulating marijuana as a crop would help maintain the environment. Economically, marijuana would help to boost revenue in the U.S. Marijuana also has numerous successful uses in the medical community. The United States has yet to legalize Marijuana, and this holds back the potential growth and protection of the environment that marijuana cultivation should offer.…
Therefore, regardless of the fact cannabis utilization does not have the evidence-based controlled trials to merit the beneficial use required for prescriptive authority, the trials to date, alongside the successful historical use of cannabis in treating ailments as compared to other viable solutions, may possibly oblige no further studies to demonstrate its therapeutic worth (Bostwick). 1. “Traditional Eastern medicine met Western medicine when W.B. O’Shaughnessy, an Irish physician working in Calcutta in the 1830’s wrote a paper extolling “Indian hemp” (Bostwick 173). “The list of indications for which he recommended cannabis-pain, vomiting, convulsions, and spasticity-strikingly resembles the…