Drug overdose

we use the drugs more often in our daily lives it becomes a routine for us to use them and make it part of our routine for a ‘break time’ or a ‘wake and bake’ type of situation. Marijuana is becoming apparent in today’s day and age for how easy it can be grown and how simple it is to find it in any given area. But as the user gets used to the high that marijuana gives out they tend to try harder drugs and enjoy that high more than the high they are used to and become addicted to it. Drugs aren’t…

not yet surfaced. To define it, pill testing allows an individual to gain information on illegal drugs to determine if it is safe to consume (NDARC. 2010). Pill testing can be implemented by setting up tents on festival grounds which provide numerous pill testing machines inside. In practice, an individual who is attending a music festival can enter the tent at the beginning of the event, hand the drugs over to the medical expert to test, return a few hours later, and find out the results. These…

Imagine your body on the ground as you start to doze off, as you feel the high you slowly begin to start an fall asleep. You have just entered an opioid overdose, and there are only two outcomes to your story. You might either blackout and wake up finding yourself on a hospital bed, or you might forever black out. Now listen to this! What if I told you there is a cure for overdosing called Naloxone that increases your chances of survival if used correctly. Would you take it? If so accept the…

methadone to drug addicts a good one? For those unfamiliar with methadone treatment allow me elaborate. According to Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, methadone is a synthetic opioid created in a lab and is commonly prescribed for treatment of opiate addictions. Individuals addicted to “heroin, oxycodone and hydromorphone” receive daily doses of methadone to alleviate withdrawal symptoms. CAMH expert’s rationalized the use of methadone as minimizing the risks associated with opioid drug…

arrest and died. A drug screen, received postmortem, showed lethal levels of carbamazepine (Tegretol) and high levels of alcohol, marijuana, and fluoxetine (Prozac). Her parents prescription-drugs-addict-addiction said that Annie, flushed and shaking, had walked into their living room, told them she didn’t feel well, and collapsed. She hadn’t been taking any…

#124937-51-5) is an antimuscarinic drug that belongs to the class of drugs known as antispasmodics. Tolterodine is prescribed to treat urinary incontinence or overactive bladder by relaxing the muscles in the bladder. Tolterodine is marketed and manufactured by Pfizer. Antimuscarinic drugs inhibit the action of acetylcholine at muscarinic receptors. Tolterodine acts on the M2 and M3 receptors and targets the bladder more than other parts of the body; therefore, only small amount of drug is…

of the deadliest recreational drugs, is making a comeback to the eastern shore. Heroin, derived from the seed of a poppy plant, has a unique molecular structure, making it an interesting topic of discussion. Using this highly addictive drug destroys both your mind and your body. Sudden discontinued use, also known as cutting off “cold turkey”, can bring about intense symptoms of withdrawal, leaving the user feeling incredibly ill, helpless, and desperate for the drug. Heroin is also extremely…

people who are already taking these medicines are usually already addicted, when they are in pain because of not getting their drug, they would do everything that they could in order to obtain it. Including buying them from low profile, skilled drug traffickers such as the Xalisco Boys. That in turn would support and promote the business of these drug traffickers and would make drug addiction a bigger problem in the world. I believe the best…

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…

decrease the number of painkiller overdoses. But it has much more bad side effects, such as apathy, irritation to the throat and lungs, likelihood of pneumonia, lost productivity, and psychosis. In my opinion, I think that doctors should not prescribe medical marijuana to anyone. There is safe medicine that works better than marijuana, and it has a lack of consistent, repeatable scientific data. Everyone knows marijuana is a danger to your body and is a gateway drug. Medical marijuana can do…