Methado Case Study

In conclusion, methadone clinics and needle exchange programs have many stigmas linked to them due to the biases that have been associated with these programs in the past. The programs are trying to create ways to encourage more drug users to use the programs available especially the needle exchange program for those who inject

Dr. Perry Kendall’s stated in a report that the mortality rate for people in opioid substitution treatment is about half of what it is for those using street heroin. (“globeandmail”) Another doctor, who has been administering the program as part of his family practice for several years states the rate of success is poor, the nature of the work often frustrating and the paperwork required under new rules is daunting. But the reward is the amazing transformation of those who are helped by methadone, says Dr. Jeff White. (“thetelegram”) Equally, a confident experience is expressed from a recovering addict himself, Jared stated to a Newfoundland based newspaper, The Compass that the methadone program had a super positive impact on his life. Going on to say in a separate interview with The Advertiser, that the first year everything went as well as it could have with him not doing any drugs. (“Advertiser”) This is just a few examples on how the methadone program has continued to play a positive impact on lives when given the

Methadone has been used since the late 1960s to treat heroin addictions. Methadone is a synthetic opioid that is highly addictive and is harder to withdraw from than heroin. Despite 50 years of experience and widespread acceptance by addiction specialists and health agencies, Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) has sometimes been publicly controversial in the U.S. and other countries. MMT is a program in which addicted individuals receive daily doses of methadone as part of a broad, multicomponent treatment plan (Methadone Maintence Treatment, 2002). Critics argue that methadone doesn’t actually help heroin addicts, but just replaces heroin with an equally addictive methadone (Mason, 2013). From my perspective, methadone should not be given to heroin addicts because it does not

Throughout the case of how Ashley had ingested the methadone, there had been many inferences being constructed. Through all the inferences, none of them are fully explaining everything that had happen that night on the cruise ship. All of the inferences are focusing on how the fiancé might have been involved in the ingested methadone, but hardly any are focusing on anything else. Due to Ashley consuming alcohol that night, the abortion causing her to be exhausted with emotion, is is very clear that she had mistaken the methadone for NyQuil and thus causing this case to be an accidental suicide.

In “Prevention is Primary” (2010), health disparities are described as “conditions that are avoidable, unjust and unfair” (p. 36). The situation in Florida, with pain clinics on every corner of Broward County handing out prescriptions and/or dispensing copious amounts of extremely potent pain medications, is certainly avoidable. Today our national pain medication abuse has reached epidemic proportions forcing our president to declare a national emergency. As highlighted in the film, the OxyContin Express, anyone is susceptible to the lure of abusing prescription drugs. Todd, a younger, white male, had been abusing oxycontin for years despite the loss of both his brother and wife. The availability and sheer number of pills with little restrictions or regulations in place has brought unfavorable conditions to Florida that promote abuse (Foster, Tanner, & Van Zeller, 2009). The fact that anyone can walk into a clinic and purchase an MRI, have strong medications to regulate “pain” prescribed, and walk out with copious, deadly amounts of drugs speaks to the fact that anyone can and is impacted by health inequalities.

The government is the best audience for the modification of the housing first program because it has the power and resources to make changes for the good of the citizen by the use of the law that is set to protect people’s rights and freedoms. It is an individual’s right to have access to a safe, secure home and habitable home.

Harm reduction is a concept that refers to policies, programs, and practices that aim to reduce the harms associated with the use of psychoactive drugs in people unable or unwilling to stop (Syme, Browne, Varcoe, & Josewski, 2011). Methadone has been increasingly utilized as a means of addressing and reducing the health, social, and fiscal harms associated with opiate addiction (Kerr, Marsh, Li, Montaner, & Wood, 2005). During my clinical rotation at Rosthern Hospital, I learned that this small town rural hospital has a successful methadone program to treat opioid addiction. When a person thinks of small town Saskatchewan, their first though is not usually intravenous (IV) drug use, but after working at Rosthern Hospital for a few shifts, I began to realize the town and the surrounding communities may have an addictions problem. At the hospital, the doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and support staff have all decided to collaborated and developed a harm-reduction methadone program for their patients. Not only is this program successful because it addresses the needs of the community, but it is also controversial. Using Carper’s (1978) “Five Ways of Knowing” I examined the methadone program and its patients, the positive and negatives, as well as a patient’s own personal experience being in the methadone program.

Met with the patient as directed by the Clinical Director. According to the patient, he requested for a dose decrease of 1mgs per day until he reaches 0mgs. Based on the patient's order, he is indeed decreasing his methadone of 1mgs; however, the order stated that it will stop at 53mgs, not 0mgs. The patient informed this writer about a discussion he had with his assigned counselor Cherron about the importance of this due to the need to get off on the methadone as he wants to obtain his CDL but cannot do so if he is prescribed with methadone. This writer reviewed the patient's record and there are no AMA taper signed and no medical consultation documented. This writer then addresses this matter with the clinic's medical doctor, who was told

Today I visited a treatment facility in Dayton OH. On James H Mcgee Blvd. This is a methadone based facility that has more than 800 clients currently receiving a daily regime of methadone; this is an agonist substance used in the treatment of opiate addiction. My interview today is with Lakisha Russell, a Licensed Social Worker: she also carries a MHT degree and a LCDC III. Furthermore acquiring a portion of this education at Sinclair.

Zoning laws have become an integral part of the growth and expansion of municipalities. Soon after New York City enacted the nations “first zoning laws in the early 20th century”, many municipalities followed suit to protect their valuable land and those who lived in it. While the zoning laws sought to keep land values high and promote the well-being of its citizens, they also reinforced the segregation of the affluent and the poor. With the history of ethnic and racial discrimination so entangled with economic inequalities, this also meant that it also reinforced racial segregation and inhibited residential integration. Fair housing laws were put in place, to help combat such exclusionary zoning, but its many loopholes has allowed exclusionary

To my knowledge treatment centers don’t refuse clients who take methadone or buprenorphine medications. These types of medications are considered to be long-gevity prescriptions. These medications are prescribed for clients in recovery or with serve conditions. I learned the client may have to take them for the rest of their life unless the client choose otherwise. I first agreed with the client’s decline, when further reading I realized why the physician prescribed the medication and what position the physician played in this process, while the client is in restrictive care. However, the choices the client decides therefore after being released. Determines their outcome on rather or not they can truly sustain being clean. Clients have to want

As I watched the news in television, listened to issues in radio, and read some newspapers for recent reports nationally and globally, one of the headlines in The Charlotte Observer captured my attention. I have read an article news in The Charlotte Observer; apparently, one of the most frequently expressed concern is about the "Big changes coming to Charlotte's zoning process code." The Charlotte's zoning code and process is one of the biggest and most talked about topic in town. As the The Charlotte Observer mentioned on its article, zoning is one of the city's fundamental regulations. It is a process of managing how properties in specific geographic zones can be used; additionally, zoning regulations are determining whether an apartment complex, housing,

The proposed development occurs within city limits on a project site of no more than five acres

Zoning ordinances and laws within a municipality are a necessity to keep order and the protection of the neighborhoods. More importantly, the objective of zoning laws is to restrict individuals from utilizing their property in a manner that could make the community less pleasing or a possible buyer less likely to purchase a house in the neighborhood (Forman, 2000). Civil and criminal penalties are levied for not complying with the zoning laws and ordinances. Municipalities are permitted to have their zoning laws enforced, to obtain injunctions, and to request the courts to address criminal endorsement against any violations (Forman, 2000). Statutory law is associated with zoning laws and ordinances within a municipality.

Anonymous. (2004). Borough erred in denying conditional use permit for housing for the elderly that met requirements for proximity to retail services and suitable traffic effects. Planning & Environmental Law, 17.