Analgesic

Successful pain management and the need to address functional problems can be accomplished through a variety of different techniques, some safer than others. To provide instant relief physicians often prescribe painkillers. Mild to moderate pain OTC over the counter oral medications like acetaminophen and NSAID 's non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are prescribed. Stronger medications are prescribed for chronic or severe pain, thereby increasing the possibility of serious side effects and…

The Criminalization of Marijuana Since the signing of the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937; the use, sale, and production of marijuana has been made and, for the most part, kept illegal. With all these new studies being done about the plant, many people are beginning to ask why the plant is still illegal. Even more so, people are also beginning to question why it 's still considered a class 1 substance. In order for a drug 's legality to be determined, scientists compare the health benefits…

“What videogames have taught me is that if you are fighting enemies on your journey you’re heading the right way”(Bill Murray). Games challenge humans and inspire them to be better. By doing this games make humans stronger, smarter and healthier. Games give humans something to aspire to and make them do things they would not have thought possible. Therefore games are beneficial to society in areas such as medicine, therapy,and learning. Games are beneficial in medicine by distracting the mind,…

Enantiomeric purity The enantiomeric purity is an important issue to produce pharmaceutical products of acceptable quality. The mobile phase was optimized to discriminate ESO and S-NAP from their chiral impurity (R-isomer). For checking the method ability to separate the chiral impurities from the active isomers of each drug, spiking of the prepared pure S-NAP and ESO isomers with their corresponding racemic mixtures at 1%, 2% and 5% levels of the main peak was done. Method optimization was…

Opioids have been used in pharmaceutical drugs as a painkiller. Opioids are in medications like morphine, hydrocodone and oxycodone, which have been praised for their effectiveness for patients suffering extreme pain However, there have been downsides to using opioids in drugs. The use of opioids has lead to addictions and to deaths in the United States. After people take opioids as a painkiller, they can become addicted to the drug. This addiction they get can lead them deeper into addiction or…

All ambulances must also carry the medication Epi. This drug must be carried in both adult and pediatric dosages. The chemical name of Epi is Epinephrine. Its chemical equation is C9H13NO3. The molecular weight of Epinephrine is 183.207 g/mol. Epinephrine has a hydrogen bond donor count of four, a hydrogen bond acceptor count of four, and a rotatable bond count of three (14). Epinephrine is given intramuscularly via auto injector. The dose is 0.3mg for adults and 0.15mg for pediatric…

On November 16, 2016, we had the privilege of witnessing a Missouri state board of nursing hearings session. It was an eye opening experience. There were several different violations that we were able to see. It gave great insight into just how easy it can be to lose a nursing license. Consequently, of the six cases that we saw, two cases in particular stood out to me. The first case was a disciplinary hearing. The nurse in question was an RN. The nurse had been practicing as an RN in Arkansas…

Hydrocodone is a popular drug used to relieve pain or to suppress coughing. This drug is a close relative to Codeine, which is also a painkiller. Hydrocodone has been around for about 95 yeas and it has made its way to the second most abused drug in the United States. So how did this drug make its way from a medical breakthrough to a highly abused substance? Hydrocodone was first created by a German pharmaceutical company known as Knoll. It was created in the 1920’s by simply attaching a…

morphine is used for moderate to severe nociceptive pain, such as pain due to surgery, trauma or cancer. Evidence suggests that tramadol can ease opioid withdrawal, therefore it cannot be abused and may be beneficial for treating opioid dependence. Analgesic effects of tramadol are facilitated with a combination of mu-opiod agonist effects and norepinephrine and serotonin reuptake inhibition. (Kayser et al., 1992; Raffa et al., 1992; Driessen…

Analgesics are a group of drugs used to alleviate pain with their various structural and physiological characteristics. Due to the high diversity of the human body, there are different groups of analgesics that are programmed to assist with pain in different parts of the body. One of the first group of analgesics produced are Narcotic Alkaloids. This group was obtained to reduce and block the activation of the pain in the neurons of the gray matter of the spinal cord and at certain receptor…