Methaddone Case

The most essential reason of methadone being such a controversy is that methadone has potential side effects, such as “drowsiness, dizziness, or blurred vision”, and thus can put someone under the danger of an automobile accident. It is true that the defendant may be convicted of DUI by methadone due to his inconsistent driving, but the conviction depends on a two-part test by the prosecution. First, the blood test conducted at a state-approved and certified lab must show “appropriate threshold levels of the drug in the defendant’s system” (Goodnough 1). Secondly, the police and the prosecution must prove that the driver who tests positive for the medication was impaired to “the point that he or she was incapable of safe driving” (Goodnough 1). However, both of these tests are subjective measurements of one’s level of impairment, and therefore, cannot avoid having some uncertainties.

America has a major problem with opioid addicts, and many facilities are helping the addicts by providing safer options to taking the drugs their bodies crave. Methadone clinics are places where people addicted to opioids can receive medicine-based therapy. Opioid use, drugs such as heroin, morphine, and prescribed painkillers, has increased in the US with all age groups and incomes. People become addicted to these drugs when they are prescribed, recreationally used with other addicts, or they are born addicted. Many health institutions are addressing this issue with an estimated 2.1 million people in the United States suffering from substance use disorders related to prescription opioid pain relievers in 2012 and an estimated 467,000 addicted

Post World War II New York City was faced with a major heroin epidemic with over 151,000 names listed in the Narcotics Register (Herman). As a medical response, methadone was developed to treat heroin addiction (Herman). Today methadone maintenance treatment has grown to become a popular therapy for drug addiction as well as pain management. Methadone has helped many people to create new lives for themselves, yet there is still debate over the success of this program. Methadone assisted treatment should be seen as an effective program in combating opioid addiction due to its health and social benefits for both users and the community.

Methadone is a synthetic opioid drug which was first used in World War II for the treatment of pain. Since then, methadone has become a popular choice for treating those addicted to other opioid drugs such as heroin, oxycodone, morphine, and hydrocodone. It is used to reduce dependency and the treatment should help them become clean. Even though, the policy of giving methadone to drug addicts is not a cure, it is a good one. Fortunately, the Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) is a reliable way for those with an opioid addiction to stop and not restart the use of opioids. For many, methadone treatment provides an opportunity to regain balance in both lifestyle and priorities. (“Opiate Addiction and Treatment Resource”). Everyone deserves

This project will focus on using Methadone as a pharmacological treatment strategy as well as the normal non-pharmacological treatment strategies to

The over use of opioid has been one of the major public health problem in the United States (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2018). Opioids include prescription medications that are used to treat pain symptoms which includes codeine, morphine, methadone, hydrocodone, and etc., as well as illegal drugs such as heroin and illicit potent on opioids such as fentanyl analogs (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2018). The opioid overdose could happen due to many factors such as when a patient deliberately misuses a prescription, or misuse heroin (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2018). Opioid overdose could happen due to the prescriber miscalculated the opioid dose or when

Until recently, there was a dramatic disconnect between this research and drug court operations. The consequences of this disconnect included relapse, overdose, and death. While drug courts were designed to accommodate those in need of medical care, most operated under the misguided and dangerous practice of requiring defendants, as part of their successful program completion, to stop taking life-saving addiction medication prescribed by their physicians. This practice, which is at odds with decades of scientific and medical research, put individuals with opioid addictions in the precarious position of either having to stop taking their effective medication and risk relapse or use their medication and face incarceration. To compound matters

CM Gilmore met with all members of the household during a home visit. VC Aubrey Smith disclosed no concerns in the home; however, Bmo's behavior appeared to be very bizzare. Evidence by constantly talking, and constantly moving during the interview. Due due to the concerned behavior from the school, and pedatrician, Sharon Beall. Bmo was drug screened, and tested positive for Amphetamine, Methamphetamine, and Methadone. Bfa was not drug screened throughout the investivation, due to his demeanor being calm and normal. Bfa has been coperative with the child throughout the investigation. VC Aubrey Smith recently had to appear in court due to a truancy case. Judge Flanagan ordered for the case to be tranferred to ongoing due to the information

This case involves the suspect being arrested for H&S 11377(a)-Crystal Methamphetamine and an outstanding arrest warrant.

D-The patient reports nothing has changed since his last encounter with this writer. The patient reports he is stable on his current dose, completed his Methadone Stabilization today, and looking forward to his take home bottle, at which is pending for determination by the clinic's TEAM. During the course of the session, this writer discussed topics that was addressed in group and what he have learned.

Although I am not sure if I would be able to do this I was thinking about observing the Cumberland Methadone clinic for an afternoon. It is open Monday-Saturday in LaVale and I think describing the waiting room and those who come in and out over the span of a few hours might make bring the story to a human level. Maybe one patient will remind someone of his or her neighbor, friend, or sibling. The problems I could see with this however would be doctor/patient confidentiality and the fact that I am not sure if I could sit in a doctor’s office inconspicuously for an afternoon without being questioned. I am open to suggestions for other physical spaces I could observe or describe.

During the interview with these physicians questions will be asked in order to get a sense of their understanding of opioids and which they prefer to use. In addition, it will be recorded them to ensure no piece of information is lost or unheard. In order to validate the information the physicians are relaying, observation of the physicians first hand to see which opioid they are using for each patient's specific case will be done. Searching of the physicians past patients' files will be executed as well. This is to see if what the physician states they are doing and which opioid they are using for a specific condition consistently matches the

This writer met with the patient about his positive result dated on 02/14/2017 for opiates, cocaine, and fentanyl. Reported being stable on his dose and denies the need for a dose increase when offered by this writer. Based on the patient attitude, he appeared to be upset about the result. The patient is fully away about the epidemic of the surrounding issue of fentanyl. Then the patient begun to complained about his treatment with HCRC. He detailed about when his bottles was suspended years ago due to leaving the take home bottles in a friend or family member vehicle and the police confiscated them. The patient then says, " I waited a whole year to get them back....." this writer explained to the patient about the take home bottles procedure,

With this information in their hands, that they were able to come up with a new study to help differentiate between motor vehicle accident (MVA) and non-accidental injury (NAI) cases and hypothesized that motor vehicle accidents and non-accidental blunt force trauma cases would present

Car accidents can happen to drivers anytime, anywhere. "According to the National Safety Council, which stated that more than 2.5 million collisions back every year, making it the most common type of car accidents, it is also known that the accident rear end as incidents of injury, because the nature of the collision leads often in whiplash injury the driver in the car in front and about 20% of people who participated in a rear collision injury symptoms of this kind. ", (NHTSA, auto-accident-resource.com). Among the car accidents, the teenage group is the only age group who is number of deaths is increasing instead of decreasing. Also, all the people are exposed to risk and actually every one of them has got car