Naloxone

Everyday 91 people die from an overdose in the United States. These deaths are not all from street drugs. Since 1999 prescription related opioid overdoses have resulted in the death of 183,000 people. Many people develop opioid addiction from being prescribed an opioid for common injuries, accidents, or illnesses. Along with opioids, stimulants and depressants are commonly abused and misused and it becoming a growing problem. Prescription drugs are drugs designed to treat a specific illness,…

Behavioral treatment is highly encouraged for addicts. After all, users claim addiction is a mental and physical disease. The National Institute claims that cognitive-behavioral therapy and contingency management are effective when it comes to treating heroin addiction. A few institutions have specific programs for substance abusers. For example, the R.J. Donovan Correctional Facility, near San Diego. This medium security prison has program called, the Amity Prison Therapeutic Community (TC)…

Heroin Treatment Options: Treatment with Methadone versus Suboxone Lori A. Snyder April 11, 2016 Heroin Treatment Options: Treatment with Methadone versus Suboxone There has been an increase in the number of people addicted to heroin. With the increase of people addicted to heroin, comes a need for more or better treatment options to help those with heroin addiction. The purpose of this paper is to compare two treatment options with information from three journal articles that have done…

Cabrillo College Nickolas Kalafut Introduction to Philosophy - Philo. 4 Fall 2017 Case Study #2: Free Will and the Opioid Crisis Paraphrase: The Guardian article “Don't blame addicts for America's opioid crisis. Here are the real culprits” provides the…

Substance abuse or misuse in the Older Adult population is a growing problem. As our population ages this problem will increase. Alcohol is reported to be the primary substance of abuse for persons aged 50 or Older. Opiates are the second most common one. Common drugs are prescribed for anxiety, pain, and insomnia. Older Adults can become addicted as do their younger counterparts due to taking medications first for pain management. Treatment resources for pain management and addictions are…

Is it addictive? If so, what makes it addictive? Heroin is highly addictive, yielding 23% of all people who have tried it addicted. Heroin, like morphine, is made from poppy seeds. Morphine is an opiate used to treat moderate to severe pain under doctor’s prescription. Morphine and heroin work in similar ways, both causing releases of dopamine by connecting to opioid receptors in the brain. However, though they are similar in the way they work, Heroin has 3 times the potency of morphine,…

Addiction does not care where you came from, where you are, what kind of job you have or the type of house you live in. It doesn’t care who you associate with, your socioeconomic status, what kind of degree you hold, or where you went to school. No; addiction is not discriminatory and as quickly as you have built your empire, it will steal it all away. Millions of Americans are struggling in silence with the disease of addiction and if we don’t establish a method to effectively treat it, the…

Introduction Drug addiction has many negative effects on many people. Fortunately, education on the topic is becoming more popular to try to prevent the problem before it happens. There are programs in schools to teach about drugs and their consequences and there are campaigns for people of all ages including advertisements on buses and billboards and commercials on television which depict what can happen due to drug use. Of course, preventative measures will not work one hundred percent of…

Trauma-Related Amnesia: A Window of Uncertainty in the Serial Podcast The malleability of memory is an enigma. While it can be unpredictable at times, we can manipulate our brains to extract memories. In court cases, however, extracting memories becomes problematic and challenging. In the podcast Serial, that was based on a murder that happened several years ago, inconsistencies hinder the strive for truth. While Jay claims that Adnan killed a girl called Hae, problems with memory cause…

Naloxone, also known as Narcan, is an opiate antidote. It is given to people who have overdosed on an opiate drug. When someone overdoses, their breathing slows down and sometime even stops, which means that oxygen is not getting to the brain. This may cause…