Drug overdose

Fentanyl is a pharmaceutical drug in a class of drugs called opioids. Initially, fentanyl was used in the 1960s for severe pain and surgical procedures. Nowadays fentanyl is used for patients with chronic pain. Majority of fentanyl users are in their late twenties all way down to age 14. About 0.5 to 1 percent of fentanyl users die annually. In 2015, close to 300 people died from fentanyl in Alberta. Fentanyl used in the streets is illegally prepared in clandestine laboratories. Since fentanyl…

Prescription drug abuse and inappropriate use is a serious public health problem. According to the Centers for disease control and prevention, United States is in the middle of an epidemic of deaths from prescription drug overdose. Drug overdose, especially non-medical use of prescription drug is the second leading cause of death from unintentional injuries in the United States. Prescription drug abuse is seen in all aspects of our population. Physicians and healthcare providers who prescribe…

agonist maintenance management is the central treatment modality. Introduction According to the US Department of Health and Human services, the United States is experiencing an opioid epidemic. In 2014 six out of ten drug overdose deaths involved an opioid (CDC, 2015.) The number of overdose deaths involving opioids (including prescription opioid pain relievers and heroin) has nearly quadrupled since 1999 (CDC,…

People often think that prescription and OTC drugs are safer than illegal drugs but they are as addictive and dangerous. Medicine has been around since 460 B.C.E and it was used to help the body. In 1796 the first medicine to cure sickness was an injection to cure smallpox. Civilization would have been better without prescription medicine. Prescription medicine can affect you body in ways you didn't even know. According for a article from recovergateway.org it states, “Prescribed medicine…

proportional epidemic in the United States today. 44 people in the U.S. die each day from an overdose in prescription painkillers 1. (Citation 1). For the reason that doctors are the ones that prescribe the medication and pharmacists are the ones that distribute the opioids, there are concerns that they are the ones at fault. However, there are questions about how the patients are the ones to blame for painkiller overdose. This is a serious conflict the nation is trying to figure out today.…

Medical Amnesty Law does not reduce overdose deaths, but it has the potential too. April 24, 2014, Georgia passed the Georgia’s Medical Amnesty Law. “Drug overdose is a nationwide epidemic that claims the lives of over 36,000 Americans every year” (Davis, 2014). In Georgia, the number of drug overdose deaths have tripled since 2013. Prescription drugs such as Hydrocodone, Methadone, and Oxycodone have claimed more lives than both heroin and cocaine. Drug overdose can be reversible if given…

people who were taking the drugs for suppressing pain caused by treatments and diseases. Doctors began prescribing less opioid painkillers due to this reason and those who were addicted turned to alternative drugs such…

Every year there are millions of people in the United States who abuse prescription drugs. According to the Internet site Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in the United States, each day there are 44 people who die from an overdose of prescription painkillers (1). Over the past few years, ER visits and drug facilitation admissions have increased exceptionally from prescription drug abuse. These drugs are prescribed by a doctor for a patient and are purchased from a pharmacy.…

Introduction Youth subcultures are commonly linked to promiscuity, and drug and alcohol use (Irwin, 1999). Subcultures are seen to be formed due to resistance to dominant culture, and deviance is often considered prevalent in youth subcultures (Becker, 1963, in Irwin, 1999). Straight Edge, also known as sXe, is based on the idea of clean living (Aron, 2016). Despite this, sXe is commonly labelled a deviant subculture (Irwin, 1999). SXe is supplemented by a fashion and music sense similar to that…

Will legalizing all drugs causes an epidemic of drug users and bring the world to chaos or will it bring peace to the war on drugs. In 2001, Portugal decriminalized all drugs and since then there has been a small decline in drug users (Laqueur, 2015, 767). This paper will focus on how legalizing drugs may be beneficial to drug users. If drugs were legal, drug addicts or users will not go to jail for possession of drugs and gang wars may be a thing of the past. Drug addicts will be able to obtain…