Alprazolam

Introduction Many people I interact with in a daily basis in the healthcare world feel that it is not right or even legal for the pharmacist to refuse the patient any medication for any reason. Especially if the medication in question is prescribed by a licensed health care Physician. There are several reasons why a pharmacist may deny any patient a medication but should there reasons be legally allowed on a federal or state level. Floridians living with pain are finding it increasingly…

Oxazepam, Lorazepam, Clonazepam, Alprazolam. Duloxetine is the only thing that works and they’re weaning me off it, so like a baby forced to remove thumb from mouth, take teether instead, I got sent to Anxiety Group. Apparently, we’re all gonna to die. Because while the girl on my left is…

Introduction There are multiple things a pharmacist technician needs to know, pharmacy and prescription law, ethical procedures, dosage forms, compounding and aseptic technique, as well as the hundreds of brand drugs and their generic forms. Hopefully this paper will put into perspective the importance of knowledge a pharmacist technician needs to know. Pharmacy law Over the past forty years several laws have been implemented which have affected and shaped the pharmacy industry as we see it…

Policy change The Legacy Hopewell House has gone to a new system of disposing pharmaceuticals. The old system allowed for medication to be disposed of in the trash, sink, toilet, or sharps container. The new system, called the Cactus Smart Sink (CSS), allows for disposal in an environmentally safe and non-retrievable way. CSS utilizes a dual canister system that allows for disposal of both solid and liquid pharmaceuticals. Once the drug is placed into the canister it is rendered unretrievable…

as David Daniel Ellis by his DL which was in his wallet beside him. While searching his rooms for other clues involving his death I found a safe located on the northwest side of the bedroom which contained multiple empty pill bottles which had Alprazolam and Zubsolv in them. Also in the safe was a small plastic bag which contained green leafy substances that appeared to be marijuana, and a pipe. The deceased also had two BB guns inside of the…

regulates the transmission of messages between cells. Benzodiazepines have been introduced as a safer alternative to previously popular barbiturates, which are far more addictive and dangerous (RC Psych, 2014). This group of medications includes alprazolam (xanax), Camazepam (Paxor), Clonazepam (Klonopin), Lorazepam (Ativan), and Temazepam (Restoril). Agitation, insomnia and other sleeping problems, anxiety, epileptic seizures and fits, alcohol withdrawal, restlessness, and mania are some of the…

For the past several years testing on animals has become the subject of intense scrutiny. However this form of research has been going on for centuries. Records of animal testing have been tracked back to as early as 384 BC. With well-known scientists such as Aristotle, Erasistratus, and Galen all using this form of testing in their experiments (Rachel Hajar). Animal testing has also led to many medical advancements such as the development of penicillin and finding the first effective treatment…

As humanity continues to progress further as a species, knowledge of science and progress in the fields of medicine, psychiatry, and pharmacology will continuously impact the ability by which the pharmaceutical manufacturers can continue to provide sources of medicine. As global population will continue to rise yearly, more people in the future will require more medicine to provide for those who are medically prescribed. Though particular drugs are manufactured with certain psychoactive…

Anxiety affects eighteen percent of the population in America that is 18 or older, that equals about forty million people. Anxiety is the “fearful anticipation of impending danger”(“Anxiety,” 2015). There are many different types of anxiety and it affects people is a variety of ways. Some people with anxiety are more likely to have depression, which can lead to them harming themselves. Which is probably one of the reasons why people with anxiety are six times more likely to be hospitalized.…

PLANNING FOR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT Topic Chosen: The area I have chosen for improving within my practice is prescribing of hypnotics in the management of insomnia. I feel that patients, especially elderly people, who are on sleeping tablets/ hypnotics/ schedule-8 drugs for a long period of time, put pressure on general practitioners for initiation or continuation of these drugs of dependency for treating insomnia and therefore I want to reduce this rate besides improving management of this…