Naloxone

petition a probate court to order involuntary treatment if they are of harm to themselves or others (Ohio State Bar Association). In March 2014 a new law was passed allowing family members, law enforcement, and addicts to carry Naloxone (Ohio State Bar Association). Naloxone is a drug that blocks opiate receptors in the nervous system, and used to help to stop overdoses. Two months later in June 2014 Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System started to require a review of patient information before…

there may be an assumption he or she had overedosed. In response to that, a member of Curtis’ team will go and investigate inside the porttapotty and if there is an overdose then that person will make an attempt to reverse overdose by injecting naloxone on the overdosed drug user and finally call the emergency medical service. The irony is the whole experiment did not go according to plan sadly. “The street was mostly deserted.” (Stofko, Curtis, Fuentes…2016, 5) Many drug users came in and out…

Heroin use and addiction is an epidemic that has spread rapidly across the United States over the past two decades. It is surprising that this epidemic is spread across every social class in America. Poor or rich, they are using or have an addiction to heroin. Addiction usually leads middle to lower class citizens to a life of crime to support their habit. Substance abuse care in correctional facilities is nothing new. Although, incidents are being brought forth that show a lack of care for…

The first solution that will lower the amounts of deaths from opioids is with the legalization of marijuana. Medical marijuana can be used instead of some opioids that people use to decrease the amount of pain they are in. Marijuana will help by how people will not have to be prescribed many different medications. Marijuana is legal in eight states, and it is legal for medical use in 21 states (Corasaniti). There are two studies that were done by the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, and the…

Hi Dr. Astheimer, This is Fyonn. I would like to keep you updated with my up-to-date experiences for the Letter of Recommendation of the Medical School applications. Research Experience I was busy with my job as a research laboratory assistant working for my principal investigator, Mariana Pereira, for the past few months at UMass. It was a purely privilege for me to work with rats in the lab since I love animals very much. In the lab, I frequently utilize the knowledge I learned in your…

Once merely seen as a hoax of random differences in alternating clinical trials, the Placebo Effect is now seen as scientifically measurable,1 as it is the study of the environmental context of the patient that affects them through psychological mechanisms.2 Most commonly the research surrounding this complex anomaly have been around neurobiological mechanisms of pain and analgesia.2 “Overall, the placebo effect appears to be a very good model to understand how a complex mental activity, such as…

Medicated Assisted Treatment: A Starting Phase to Recovery Between 26 and 36 million people abuse opioids in the world (Volkow 2014) and every nineteen minutes someone in the United States dies from an opioid overdose (CDC 2012). A person often continues their use of opioids despite negative consequences due to the fear of withdrawal and lack of coping skills. Medication assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid addiction is an option which stops withdrawal symptoms, provides stability and…

My name is Megan Johnston and I am a registered nurse at a local hospital with nine years of critical care experience. During my career at the bedside, I have watched numerous parents, children, and other family members have to make the difficult decision to take their loved one off of life support and watch them die after an opioid drug overdose. To watch how devastating this is for patients and their loved ones is both heart wrenching and disturbing to me as a healthcare professional. The…

the article he disccuses more pros about how the drug saves lifes and how addicts get a second chance even if they have been revived a few time due to overdosing. The author states thru Dr.Alexander Y. Walley an addiction medicine specialist that "Naloxone (brand name Narcan) encourages riskier drug use was like seatbelts encourage riskier driving." The author states that addicts disagree with the comment that Narcan is a safety net saying "Why would anyone want to get high to the point where…

attempted to understand the many different elements of research, and what I felt would make for a good topic, I looked at what was current and controversial. In doing so, I elected to look at the topic of Narcan. Narcan, which is also referred to as Naloxone, is a drug that reverses the effects of opiates. As many of us are aware, the United States, and particularly Ohio, is dealing with an epidemic of heroin and fentanyl overdoses, many resulting in death. Due to this, a recent Senate Bill was…