Opiate

ingredient in wines and soda pop -- including Coca Cola.2 Prior to 1890, laws concerning opiates were strictly imposed on a local city or state-by-state basis. One of the first was in San Francisco in 1875 where it became illegal to smoke opium only in opium dens, which mainly effected the Chinese population. It did not ban the sale, import or use otherwise, and surreptitiously did not apply to white upper-class users, who preferred to use morphine intravenously. Unsurprisingly, the number of people addicted increased, and the government began efforts to regulate the sale and use of cocaine and narcotic…

Studies show there is a correlation between the personality traits of people and the use of substances (alcohol, opiates, smoking, stimulants, etc.). For example, opiate dependence has been the result of emotionally unstable people (Kornor and Nordvik 2007). Therefore, it is important to this relationship to gain a better understanding of how it affects people’s moods and behaviors. The use of stimulants (cocaine, heroin, marijuana, cigarettes) negatively impacted the United States in the health…

communities, in our schools, and possibly even in your own home. Opiates are an unsuspecting killer. It is possible to save lives from addiction and overdoses by making it harder to obtain opiates from physicians, resulting in fewer prescription opiate users while also limiting the availability of dangerous opiates. Every year doctors are prescribing more and more opiates. At the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics, Nora Volkow, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse reported…

Sam Quinones’ Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic portrays the addiction epidemic that was cultivated into a catastrophe by pharmaceutical companies and doctors who billed opiates as risk-free drugs. Based on the evidences the book provides, drug traffickers from Mexico delivered black-tar heroin to desperate addicts in typical cities throughout the United States. Consequently, the themes that emerged in Dreamland includes the expansion of heroin and the mass-marketing of legal…

atients taking opiates carry certain risk factors that increase addictive behaviors. Opiate therapy is frequently tarnished in many studies and news stories. As with any type of medical treatment, medical professionals should evaluate their patients’ addictive risk factors. According to Center for Disease Control (2016), recommends that patients that require opiate therapy should be fully assessed for mental health conditions. Experts suggest that the opiate therapy is not the reason for…

The Prevalence Of Opiate Abuse Opiates are medications that are prescribed to alleviate pain. They are one of the most commonly abused prescription medications. It is estimated that 0.37 percent of adults are addicted to opiates. Opiate abuse is more common in women than in men. There are a variety of things that can lead to an opiate addiction. Genetic factors can play a role. People who have a first-degree relative, such as a mother or father, with an opiate addiction are more likely to…

Key differences between the production and use of alcohol, cocaine, opiates, and marijuana have led each to be prohibited in the United States at one point or another. In order to truly understand the rise and fall of alcohol prohibition, the continued prohibition of cocaine and opiates, and the slowly surfacing repeal of marijuana prohibition, multiple factors must be considered. The legal, medical, or ethical use of substances by themselves have little power to effect prohibition or…

Opiate Addiction by Haley Dotson Opiates are drugs that are used to treat pain, some may also see them called Opioids or Narcotics. They may be legal or illegal. Some of the most popular and recognizable opiates are called Codeine, Heroin, Hydrocodone, Hydromorphone, Methadone, Meperidine, Morphine, and Oxycodone and many more. Along with the brand names of these opiates some are also known as Vicodin, Dilaudid, Demerol, Percocet, and Oxycontin. Wrongly using these drugs can affect people in…

Over the past decade, the number of prescription drug issues has dramatically risen. Prescription opiates are being widely abused often leading to an addiction or becoming a gateway to harder, more dangerous substances. Unfortunately, more often than not, doctors are unknowingly enabling drug abusers and addicts instead of helping to aid them. Prescription opiates are often addictive but seem to be the only choice at the time when a patient is in pain. We need to continue research of…

Brief history of Opiates Archeological evidence fossilized poppy seeds suggest that Neanderthal man may of used the opium poppy about thirty thousand years ago. Also the first known written reference of the poppy appears in a Sumerian text from around 4000 B.C. Around 3400 B.C, the opium poppy is cultivated was lower Mesopotamia. Then, during 330 B.C, Alexander the Great introduces Opium to Persia and India. In the 15th and 16th century, it is believed Arab traders brought opium to the far…