Opiate

risk of HIV is through the use of methadone which works as a replacement to opiates. Methadone is effective with helping individuals with drug addiction, but many drug users do not participate in treatment, or do not complete treatment. This article examines a potential solution to out of treatment injection drug users with the use of a therapeutic work environment to help reinforce individuals to remain abstinent from opiates and cocaine. This study…

Police corruption falls into two noteworthy classifications - external corruption, which concerns police contacts with the general population; and inside corruption, which includes the connections among policemen inside the works of the police division. The external corruption by and large comprises of one or a greater amount of the accompanying exercises: 1) Payoffs to the police, by individuals who basically damage non-criminal components, who neglect to agree to stringent statutes or city…

“The Junky’s Christmas” is a short story about an opiate addict named Danny attempting to obtain heroin on Christmas Day after having been in jail for three days. Danny must also deal with the intense opiate withdrawal. The short story was adapted into a short film titled The Junky’s Christmas which follows the original story. After being given an opiate medication by an alcoholic doctor, Danny uses his remaining cash to rent a cheap hotel room for the night. He goes to his room and…

Heroin is a highly euphoric, highly addictive type of drug extracted from the opium poppy plant. The opioid epidemic has reached increasingly large numbers and is very prevalent nowadays. People use opiates for many different reasons. They are considered analgesic drugs because the relieve pain. All opiates, including morphine, hydrocodone and oxycodone, require a prescription by a doctor and are used to treat severe pain. However, this is not nearly the reality we see in today’s society. From…

Drugs such as buprenorphine or Methadone are not a solution; they are more like a bandage. They help ease the symptoms that addicts experience while detoxing from opiates, but they are extremely addictive and habit forming. Essentially, the addict is trading one drug addiction for another. The only difference is that this one is legal. If the person hopes to lead a fully normal life in the future, they must get clean…

Marijuana to Decrease Prescription Narcotics Use.” Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, vol. 35, 2013, pp. 24–40. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/humjsocrel.35.24. This article mainly focuses on the topic of marijuana vs opiates and if it decreases the use of opiates. Opiates are drugs that when taken, don’t help that much with some serious medical conditions, and they cause you too feel very ill after usage. This article says that marijuana is an all-natural remedy that has a much more…

history when a journal was left behind from Martha Ballard, a midwife, giving us first hand knowledge on how the changes occurred. During this time period we see the slowly fading tradition of healing women and midwives getting replaced by that of opiates and doctors with their forceps. Though Midwives were still respected…

The opiate epidemic runs rampant in West Virginia, killing parents leaving kids left alone to pick up the pieces of their parent's mistakes, wondering what happened along the way. Eli Saslow beautifully narrates the story of the Pulliam family in such a predicament in his article "What Kind of a Childhood is that". Published in December of 2016 by Washington Post, Saslow shows the devastating effects of heroin addiction and how it affects the standard American family. By using narration, imagery…

since the entire poppy theme is to link their narratives5. The Primal is Erin’s connection to Garrett and her only way to communicate with and guide him to her. She needs him alert, capable and relatively healthy if he is to help her escape. Opium or opiates including poppy milk would prevent all of that. Which is most likely why he does not drink anything anyone gives him and only eats pre-packaged items. Most everyone in the game is drinking poppy leaf tea infusions even though these are…

choice gateway drug. Though it is just as harmful as heroin, it’s only viewed as a problem when someone becomes addicted. In this case, why shouldn’t other drugs be legalized and treated the same way? I can’t see the government deciding to criminalize opiates,…