Opioid receptor

Tanner Leary Ms. Maggert English III 13 December 2016 Prescription Drug Use Prescription drugs are a tricky subject to make claims about. While they help so many people they also have a negative effect on many people. Many people have been affected by drugs of many kinds but it is alarming when prescription drugs are a huge cause of why people overdose so easily and die because they are legal and so easy to get ahold of. They are bad because of the short term effects they have, the long term…

An increasing social issue within America is the abuse of substances such as heroin and other similar opioid painkillers. Opioid painkillers are taken as prescription painkillers provided by doctors for serious pain. It is estimated that almost 25 million Americans use opioid painkillers for nonmedical reasons (Dart et al, 2015). And this number seems to be increasing steadily and within suburban areas. Overtime many patients were taking painkillers for nonmedical reasons and became addicted to…

High doses of some stimulants repeatedly over a short period of time can lead to hostility or feelings of paranoia in some people. Although amphetamine and methamphetamine are considered to be similar in some ways, when it comes to side effects. they are different. Side effects of amphetamine may include: bladder pain, bloody or cloudy urine, difficult, burning, or painful urination, fast, pounding, or irregular heartbeat or pulse, frequent urge to urinate, and lower back or side pain. From the…

Fact: Steroid regimen Dr. Kikuchi pointed out that less experienced doctors may not be sure about optimum frequency or timing of steroid administration in a day as well as the dosage amount per a day. Dose amount/frequency of steroid, usage of Tac and anti-TNFα bio can be depend on if pts are hospitalize or ambulatory in addition to their disease status. Insight: Advantage of self-injection Having an option of self-injection is a big strength, which allows ADA to be used for pts in various…

Milnirone Milrinone, a bipyridine derivative, is a phosphodiesterase III (PDE) inhibitor that prevents the breakdown of cAMP and cGMP. Clinically, milrinone has replaced amrinone, the prototype PDE inhibitor owing to its greater intropic potency, enhanced PDE III selectivity, shorter half life and favorable adverse effect profile. Mechanism of action: Milrinone's selective inhibition of PDE III leads to elevated levels of cAMP with cardiac and smooth muscle cells. Consequently, positive…

Bupropion works by inhibiting the neuronal uptake of both dopamine and norepinephrine (Stall, Godwin, & Juurlink, 2014). Bupropion is also an antagonist for acetylcholine (Stall et al., 2014). Bupropion is considered a second generation antidepressant (Moreira, 2011). Compared to other antidepressants, bupropion acts as a dopamine and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (Moreira, 2011). Bupropion can be taken in a once daily extended release tablet or an immediate release tablet that is taken…

When people hear the word psychedelic, they think of the underground drug scene or other negative things commonly associated with the word. People don’t have any clue that psychedelics can actually be used as a medicine in many different ways, and many have proved to be an efficient tool in the right settings and circumstances. Psychedelics like ‘Magic Mushrooms’, LSD, DMT, and MDMA grew notorious in the late 50s and 70s and most of these drugs were being researched at the time until studies…

What is an Opioid? “Drugs are refined from or are synthetic versions of the opium poppy’s active ingredients” (Inaba/Power Point). Typically, opioids contain, opium, morphine, codeine, heroin and others. Codeine (also known as cough syrup, lean or purple drank), is an example of an opioid. Lean is a drink that rappers have made popular. This gives me the idea that those who abuse this drug are just following along with the trend. What I mean by following the trend is, they decide to use it…

Drug abuse is one of the most discouraged behaviors in our country, yet there are over 40 million illegal drug users in the world today and America is the biggest market for these substances. The troubling epidemic surrounds our lives everyday. We hear horrific tragedies on the news everyday about the growing epidemic but in most cases are to busy categorizing these children and downplaying there deaths because of their addiction. One of the most commonly used and highly addictive illegal drug…

Since the main purpose of general anesthetics were to help patients who were suffering from some sort of pain as a pain reliver to induce unconsciousness for some surgical or medical procedures. The effects were purely similar for local anesthetics as well just not administered properly that can result in more harm than benefits. As mentioned in the textbook cocaine being considered a local anesthetic this main difference between cocaine is that when it does enter the bloodstream it reaches the…