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    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…

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    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…

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    addictive. Drug abuses are not alone “over 3 percent of the people” (“National Institute”) have abused prescription drugs in some form. Drugs are over prescribed and over abused by many people, there are many trends in the drug epidemic going on with opioids, anxiety medications, Central Nervous System depressants, and stimulants. Drug abuse is on the rise, and doesn’t seemed to be stopping…

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    Heroin Research Paper

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    Heroine: What is it? What is it used for? (IMAN) Everyone knows about heroine, however most don’t know what heroin is. In the beginning heroin was not referred to as an illegal drug, but rather a treatment for tuberculosis, and a cure for people addicted to morphine in Germany during the late 1800’s. Although, by the late 1900s, it backfired and mortality rates were greater than the population (Heroin: What is it?, 2008). People can buy heroin either in its purest form, or laced with other…

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    ones I will be looking to integrate Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Motivational Interviewing (MI), for directing the client towards a successful recovery. This approach is designed to understand the motivation of the client for using the opioids and replacing it with healthy way of tackling his issues. Moreover, it will provide the client with the stable environment to explore the roots of his problems in…

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    It works by acting on the opioid receptors in the GI tract, which slows intestinal contractions. As a result it will slow the movement of the bowels. This gives the intestine more time to absorb the liquid from the bowels, resulting in a drier bowel movement. However the main problem with Diphenoxylate is that it is a Meperidine congener and thus has extremely addictive opioid properties (2). It can produce a sense of euphoria if overconsumed, which…

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    drug for both its pain relieving properties, and euphoric side effects. Opioids drugs also build tolerance. Which means the patient will require a higher dose to achieve the same high, and pain relief. In addition to pain’s subjectivity which causes doctors to prescribe high doses, narcotic analgesics are overprescribed. In the last few years the amount of narcotic analgesics have dramatically risen. The reported cases of opioid addiction has also…

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    killers: Opioids The word addiction, according to the Merriam – Webster dictionary means, a strong and harmful need to regularly have or do something. For example, taking drugs, gambling, alcohol, sex and more. This specific essay gives information about being addicted to pain killers (opioids). Chronic pain is a major issue and one third of Americans suffer from it, that is thirty percent of the world’s population (Angres et al., 2015). Addiction to pain killers caused by the intake of opioids…

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    Fentanyl Research Paper

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    Fentanyl According to Susan Robertson, the drug fentanyl which is an opiate agonist, has been around since the 1960s and created by Dr. Paul Jansen. "The use of fentanyl as a pain reliever and anesthetic was quickly adopted in the medical setting. In the 1960s, the agent was introduced as an intravenous anesthetic under the brand name Sublimaze"(S.Robertson)pg.1. In the 90s fentanyl was turned into a patch which breaks down into the blood stream through a period of 72 hours. Fentanyl…

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    mg. As a result, one opiate pill will cost you $60, and the equivalent amount of heroin can be obtained for one-tenth of this price (Gupta, 2015). Additionally, a majority of doctors are hyper-vigilant of the addictive properties that prescription opioid painkillers possess and can only prescribe a certain amount within a set time period. As such, addicts must engineer increasingly difficult ploys and manipulations in order to get more from painkillers from, oftentimes, several different…

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