Narcotics - Research Paper in English

Morphine is an opioid pain killing medication. It is used to treat moderate to severe pain. It is taken as needed by the patient feeling the pain. People who suffer from asthma or breathing problems should not take morphine as a pain killer. One of the most common side effects from morphine is that it can stop or slow down your breathing. It is also important that the pill is not broken down or open as it could expose the patient into a deadly overdose. This pain killer should stay legal the way it is for only medical reasons as this medication actually helps the person who needs it. It is highly addictive to the person who takes it for recreational reasons. Morphine is used to treat terminal cancer pain, and post-surgery pain. Also people

If you have been working in EMS for longer than a week you will probably already know the epidemic that America is facing. The epidemic that I am referring to has no discrimination and anyone can fall victim to it. If it hasn't already destroyed your family in some way then you are one of the lucky few.

Opiate addiction can cause many negative changes in the brain. This leads to the structure and functioning of the brain to perform lower than usual. As a result of constant consumption of the opiate medications, addicts lose most of their ability to cope with pain naturally without taking use of pain medication (Torres, 2014). This low tolerance of pain leads to the addict experiencing a higher level of pain since they consistently have high levels of opiates in their system (Torres, 2014). Opiates have the ability to produce withdrawal symptoms in a few hours after the last dose (Opiate Withdrawal Timelines, Symptoms and

Narcotics Anonymous is a support group program that assist in helping individuals, men and women, into recovering from drug related issues that affect a person mentally, physically, and emotionally. This type of program helps individuals who are drug addicts to stop their use, urge, and to overcome their drug addition issues. Narcotics Anonymous support group is known to be present worldwide in several locations that offers their assistance to drug addicts to recovery. Some individuals in this support group acts as “sponsors” helping the person he/she is sponsoring to remain drug-free. This support group not only pertains to individuals with drug related issues assisting others with the same problem, it also welcomes family members as additional

An opiate-dependent person does not have the inability to think clearly and adapt easily into a life without the opiates. When an addict is presented with the challenge of stopping the use of opiates, the brain needs it more than ever before. Even long after the withdrawal symptoms are gone; an addict must deal with post acute withdrawal syndrome (PAWS). The syndrome lasts from six to eighteen months after the last use. It has importance to the recovering addict’s ability to benefit from recovery, treatment, function effectively on the job, interact with family and friends, and regain emotional health.

Drug dependency, drowsiness, confusion, constipation, depressed respiration and nausea have been causes of an opioids intake, but many people consider that just another excuse to up the intake of the medicine (NIH). Aside from those physical set-backs there are psychological mental effects too, which include the inability to make immediate decisions, control behavior or react in a stressful moment. This type of mental errors could cause a person to have an overdose or not realize the deadly effects of the tablets. The same effects of the intake of heroin in the body, the mind seems to separate from the body causing to view the world from far away where anything harmful cannot happened. Even while trying to avoid the hectic side-effects of withdrawal from opioids, or heroin, the doctor could prescribe a slow drug taper pills to combat the unwanted uncertainties, or the patient can stop cold-turkey and find other methods to deal with the persistent pain. To this present day there are various medical surgical procedures, low-dose meditation, trying acupuncture or ancient, home remedies are available to the entire world with the world wide

In case of Medical Detoxification treatment, an individual is withdrawn from an addicting drug under a physician's care. In case of some types of drugs, like alcohol, barbiturates and other sedatives, detoxification may be medically necessary, and if it is withdrawn suddenly it may be deadly or medically dangerous.

Opiates are a commonly prescribed medication today in America. These powerful medications come from the poppy plant and are known to relieve pain. They fall into a class known as “narcotics,” which also includes other pain relievers. The term is often used interchangeably with the term “opioids,” drugs similar to opium. Regardless of what you call them, opiate addiction happens quite frequently.

Drugs have taken control over the lives of millions of people. From cannabis to heroin, and all the other drugs on the street, the one thing all these drugs have in common is how deadly they are. However, the one drug that is known to be deadly, yet so addicting at the same time is cocaine. Cocaine has developed over the years. This drug targets people of all backgrounds, the high affect’s people before, during, and after the use, and finally it does permanent damage to the body, if death caused by overdose does not occur first. No matter the cost, or how one will get inventory of this substance. People who have a serious need for cocaine will do just about anything for it to be in their possession.

-Depressants(Alcohol): They help people relax and relieve their inhibitions. They also impair memory and judgment. When a person is depressed by something in his or her life( divorcement, losing jobs,...), they can help that person feel relaxed. Or another example is if a person has to do something that he or she daren’t do when he or she is conscious, by the use of depressants, that person will have more couragement to do it.

When I was younger, I smoked to stay healthy. Opium was good for my body. Now that I am old, I smoke to give myself pleasure and make myself a little bit stronger. Because I smoke I can do many things, I have much more get-up-and-go. After smoking opium I feel stronger, and I'm in a good mood and like to talk to many people,and I don't get tired. Now I smoke to keep my body ticking over. Iv'e been smoking for thirty years, so if I stopped now I would die.”

The trend has started to evolve already, in 460 B.C. a Greek physician, also known as “The Father of Medicine”, named Hippocrates learns about the opium poppy plant. He notices that it is useful to treating internal diseases, for women and epidemics. Alexander the Great introduces the opium to the people of Persia and India around 330 B.C. Opium is now used by Arabs, Greeks, and Romans as a sedative and soporific. 400 A.D., opium thebaicum, from the Egyptian fields at Thebes, is first introduced to China by Arab traders. For a couple of hundreds of years opium had vanished from all the records. In 1500 it came back, Portuguese, while trading along the East China Sea, they started the smoking of opium. It was then reintroduced into the European

If I suspected a nurse was diverting narcotics, I would immediately run a urine test on the patient to see if in fact, the medication was absent or not at the correct levels. I would then call the nurse into my office to see if there were any physical characteristics of drug abuse or suspicious behavior. I would assign a new nurse to the patient and wait for the lab results to come back in. Also, I would check nurse records for frequently lost or wasted medication. If lab results showed that the patient was not receiving their correct dosage of medication, I would immediately send the nurse for a drug test. I would reassure the patient’s family that their loved one was in good hands and follow proper policies and protocol regarding the nurse.

Buprenorphine is used to relieve patients who suffer from pain, more specifically persistent pain. Pain is a condition according to (IASP 2012, ‘IASP taxonomy’, para 1) as ‘an unpleasant sensory associated with actual or potential tissue damage’. According to the Australian Medicines Handbook (AMH 2016 ‘Pain’, pain types, para 1); Pain may be classified clinically as Nociceptive or Neuropathic. Buprenorphine is used to alleviate patients who suffer from moderate to severe pain anywhere on their body. Depending on the servility of one's pain you will be prescribed with Buprenorphine for instance, one of the conditions of pain Buprenorphine is used for, are patients suffering from chronic neuropathic pain. Patients suffering from chronic pain are given Norspan 10 transdermal patches which is the dosage form of Buprenorphine. The Norspan 10 transdermal patch is said to be suitable for patients suffering from moderate chronic pain, as these patches release low dosages of

Synthetic narcotics are most commonly used by oral ingestion. They are abused by millions of people dating back to the Chinese history. Chinese smoked opium for hundreds of years before realizing that there was any danger of addiction or abuse occurring from the use of these drugs and even after they had realized the dangers, they still continued to abuse the substances. The upper class, dating back to the Hippocrates would use narcotics to alter their mood and reduce inhibitions. The ancient Egyptian writings, hieroglyphics, tell stories of the Egyptians using opium poppy for pain relief during child birth. When Edinburgh invented the hypodermic needle or syringe in 1853 opiates became much more widely used and abused. Millions of people abuse substances throughout the past 100 years or more in an effort