Buprenorphine

Drugs such as buprenorphine or Methadone are not a solution; they are more like a bandage. They help ease the symptoms that addicts experience while detoxing from opiates, but they are extremely addictive and habit forming. Essentially, the addict is trading one drug addiction…

Buprenorphine stops heroin from giving you that “high” feeling and stops withdrawal symptoms and the crave for heroin (the strong feeling that you need to have it). Buprenorphine is a drug and if used in the correct way it does not get you high nor does it cause strong effects. It is very hard to overdose or get sick from using this drug. There are three phases that a person goes through when using the buprenorphine…

Abstinence-based treatment for opioid addiction is a fancy way of saying that treatment should not involve the use of medications. To provide abstinence-based treatment, various therapeutic regimens are employed. Typically, the addict undergoes detoxification in an inpatient medical facility to rid the body of the opioids, typically over a 3 to 5-day period. After detoxification, the addict either enters into intensive one-to-one counseling on an outpatient basis (perhaps meeting with a…

This is a 58-year-old female with a 1/16/2015 date of injury. The IW was moving bottles of wine from cart to a center table when she slipped and landed on her left knee. DIAGNOSIS: Lumbar facet arthropathy 12/07/15 progress note by Dr. Tarasenko indicates request for Tramadol and Butrans. The Diagnosis is lumbar facet arthropathy. 10/11/15 progress report by Dr. Kofoed indicated that the patient complains of significant anterior left knee pain. The pain is 7-8/10 on pain scale. She describes…

Effects on Mothers This disease can cause many issues amongst the mothers whose child has NAS. Often times people just look at the effects that NAS has on the baby but the drug-abusing mother is also effected. Women have been using prescription and some nonprescription drugs while pregnant and letting themselves get an addiction for them. In (14) . . . says, “There has been a 33 percent increase in nonmedical use of prescription opioid pain relievers among pregnant women in the last decade.”…

The phone call came in the afternoon, one of twenty or so that day. Marty, a former patient, had died of a heroin overdose. Reportedly, another person was with her when she injected the heroin but ran off when she crashed. A prompt call to 911 or access to a Narcotic Overdose Rescue Kit might have saved her life. Marty was a rebellious teenager, having dropped out of school in the 11th grade. Her parents thought it was just a phase until she overdosed for the first time on heroin. They had been…

death of patients with substance use disorder (SUD). The focus of my project is how Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) political efficacy relates to the legislative change to increase access to care through utilizing APRNs to prescribe buprenorphine for SUD. This approach brings a different perspective to culture because political efficacy may be affected through cultural beliefs, practices and understanding of the political process. The research related to political efficacy and culture…

entering care, compulsive substance abusers are far more likely to revert to their old patterns of use very soon after being discharged (Sober Living Communities and Housing Options. (n.d.pg__). 8. Youth Stabilization Programs The state currently only funds four youth treatment programs, 1 female and 3 male youth residential programs in Massachusetts (Carlo, G, 2010). Limited systems exist for youth with only five recovery high schools in the commonwealth as well . Carlo et al, provide clarity…

medication a doctor must examine how serious the herion habit is to determine the level of medication needed. There are three types of medication treatment options in the US: Methadone, Buprenorphine, and Naltrexone. Methadone is a level one treatment drug, the lowest level, it activates opioid receptors. Buprenorphine is a level two treatment drug, the second level, it activates opioid receptor and it also lowers the effect of the high that comes from the heroin. Finally there is Naltrexone,…

Sam Quinoes, the author of Dreamland, was able to combine the multiple stories to form into his own narrative. Throughout the book he discussed how rapid the opiate addiction spread across the country, how young or old these people were, and the race that was mainly affected. That led me to the question, what actually is the average age group, race, and location of most of these opiate addictions. Opiates originally were prescribed to relieve acute pain, but over time it created the addiction…