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Ms. C.B. is a 23 year-old-female, single, and work as cashier at Walmart. She is residing in North Fort Myers, FL., who presented at the Millenium clinic to be seen bacause over the past six months, she has been experiencing incrising problems with her menstrual cycle. Usually, symptoms occur five to ten days before her menstrual cycle start, which is severe enough to interfere with her daily living. Some symptoms include breast tenderness, irritability, mood swings, and food cravings. She also…

Nurses play a major role in preoperative , intra-operative and postoperative pain assessment and management .Pharmacological management is a challenging process to relieve pain. The first choice of drug is a background pain relief, is regular paracetamol, which is safe in the young and in the elderly, is well tolerated, effective in nociceptive and neuropathic pain and available in several dose forms. Regular doses of between 4g daily (four times a day) is recommended for…

caused by this drug!We can stop the heartbreak, sadness, and pain caused by opiates. When people think of opiates they tend to think of heroin, but opiates consist of several different medications beside heroine.Such as Demerol and morphine, Norco,codeine ,Oxycontin are all…

18th century physicians used opium for a therapeutic agent that had multiple purposes, but mostly for relieving pain. It was only towards the late 18th century that some physicians began to recognize that the drug had extremely addictive qualities. Codeine and morphine are isolated forms of opium. Heroin was first synthesized from morphine in 1874 by English chemist C.R Wright. However, the drug was not available for commercial use until The Bayer Company introduced heroin as a substitute for…

Case study 1 Mr I is suffering from seasonal influenza as he shows symptoms including sneezing, headache, muscle ache, malaise, dry, chesty cough, fever, fatigue and weakness because he can hardly sit up. These are all the symptoms of seasonal influenza (NICE, 2015). Although symptoms of colds and influenza are very similar, but his symptoms developed within two days which is relatively fast, proving that he suffers from influenza instead of cold. As symptoms of influenza develop a lot faster…

Since the beginning of life, the world has been plagued with diseases, illnesses, and health complications. The black plague or the Black Death, for example, wreaked havoc on medieval Europe killing millions of people. This occurred during the 14th century. It is now the 21st century and we are faced with a new "black death" called prescription opioid drug abuse. Prescription opioid drug abuse has been on the rise in the United States since 2001 and is now considered an epidemic.…

The Rise of Islam The rise of Islam has played a major role in world history. Islam has contributed to many aspects of life: it has made a great impact on medicine, architecture and mathematics. It all starts in the early seventh century with Prophet Mohammed who lived in Mecca. He started out with meditation in a cave and in the year 610, then he started having visions/ messages from God. From there on he started preaching and getting people to follow him, and soon they formed the Islamic…

first synthesized by C. R. Alder Wright. Wright’s invention, however, did not become popular right away. About 20 years later, scientists working at the German drug company Bayer produced an acetylated form of morphine when they tried to produce codeine. The scientists found that this acetylated form of morphine is more potent than morphine. They gave this drug a brand new name: Heroin. At the time, morphine was a popular drug, however, it had a problem of addictive side-effects. In 1898, the…

alkaloids ergotamine tartrate Ergomar Do not exceed recommended dosage Opioid analgesics butorphanol Stadol May cause drowsiness; may impair ability to drive; avoid alcohol; take with food; may be habit forming Opioid analgesics acetaminophen/caffeine/codeine 30mg Tylenol #3 May cause drowsiness; may impair ability to drive; avoid alcohol; take with food Opioid analgesics meperidine Demerol May cause drowsiness; may impair ability to drive; avoid alcohol; take with food; may be habit forming…

The story of former nfl wide receiver J.D. Hill and his downward spiral of addiction to painkillers after having received hundreds,upon thousands of painkillers from trainers, his addiction led him to the streets to purchase his painkillers to get his fix and leave the league entirely. J.D. became homeless due to his addiction that no one thought would happen, J.D. spent 15 years in and out of drug treatment centers after 20 long years J.D. overcame his NFl allowed addiction. Medical Marijuana…