Opioid

Medication-Assisted Therapy for Opioid Addiction Opioid addiction is a chronic, recurring brain disease that can be adequately and safely managed. I have reviewed two articles that discuss medication-assisted therapy for opioid addiction. The first article discusses three US FDA-approved medications for treating opioid addiction, while the second article discusses the treatment needs of pregnant women with opioid use disorders. In the first article, three presentations are discussed that…

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…

Opioid addiction has increasingly spread to all areas of America. With the number of deaths due to opioid related accidents rising, America is in a frenzy to react. Members of Congress and the President of the United states have attempted to control the chaos caused by opioids. However, there is a surplus of controversy concerning the best system to counteract the damage caused by opioid abuse. Recent reforms created to deter the abuse of opioids, could cause a spiral of chaos. Many of the…

The Opioid Crisis refers to the drastically increased and popularized usage of opioids, especially fentanyl. In Cambridge, the core Galt area is mostly affected by this issue, as many used drug needles can be seen in the surroundings. There have been countless cases of fentanyl overdoses in Cambridge, and kits including a drug known as naloxone is being used to reverse the effects of opioids. There is currently debate surrounding the topic of establishing supervised and safe injection sites, and…

Introduction The opioid abuse epidemic become one of the most important problem in the USA. The follow discussion will analyze this problem according to a US House of Representatives hearing addressing the opioid abuse epidemic. This discussion will rely on Stone’s policy theory, which is define goal first, and then construct problem, finally promote solutions. Therefore, there are five sections to understand the problem. The first section will define the main concept from Stone to better…

Imagine something affecting your state that surpasses the amount of deaths caused by homicide, suicide, motor vehicle accidents, and AIDS combined. That is what is happening in New Jersey. Despite numerous efforts by the state, the opioid epidemic is still on the rise. In 2015, a study conducted by New Jersey advanced media states that, “the per-capita rate of 8.3 heroin-related deaths per 100,000 people is more than triple the national rate reported by the Centers for Disease Control”…

of people and even reached the epidemic status. The opioid epidemic disrupts families, futures, and society as a whole. According to health care reporter, Rachel Roubein, President Trump declared the Opioid Epidemic as a “National Public Health Emergency” in late 2017, and has since extended it twice, fulfilling one of his highly anticipated campaign promises. In his announcement, the president stated, “We can be the generation that ends the opioid epidemic” (Roubein). Historically such…

an opioid epidemic. Tens of thousands of people die of drug overdoses every year. According to the CDC, in 2015 at least 33,000 people died of an opioid overdose. (CDC, 2017) To put the prevalence of opioid deaths into perspective, consider that in 2015 the total number of drug overdose deaths was estimated at 52,000 (VOX). This means that 63.4% of fatal drug overdoses in 2015 were caused by an opioid. According to the National Institute of Health, over ninety Americans die of an opioid…

Professionals, Bryant). By doing this, the descending connections of cells are also inhibited by the narcotics. This being said, this group of analgesics are used primarily to stimulate the central nervous system in the human body. Narcotics are termed as Opioid Analgesics in the United States. An example of an addictive narcotic is morphine. Another type of analgesics are synthetics. This is a group with related compounds and additive properties, but with the hope of securing analgesia…

substances, something that has developed over time. Opioid use is a plight on communities in the modern era, it is having an apparent rise in popularity in rural and urban America and is affecting society as a whole. The only way forward is a treatment based system rather than punishment based. That is not to argue by any means that opioid users should be exonerated for crimes committed under the influence, only that when someone is sick and needs help opioid use alone should not constitute…