Prisoners After Prison Overdose

The documentary “League of Denial” exposes the expansive concealment of the connection between the sport of football and long-term brain injuries that the National Football long has thoroughly kept hidden for over 20 years from the eyes of the public, as well as the players routinely subjected to these injuries. The emphasis is on how a multibillion dollar industry so keen on acquiring money and preserving its stain free reputation that it would put the health of its players at risk, by denying any means of research that would depict that very action.

Legal consequences to broken laws are important, but the consequence should match the crime. For instance, a few days in jail for accidentally running a red light would be over the top. Think about how many people could potentially lose their jobs over a traffic violation! But this is happening to many people struggling with addiction. They are charged with possession and given a prison sentence, with lawmakers hoping the time away from drugs will cure them. One major issue is overdose upon release. This is very dangerous to someone in active addiction, because depending on the length of time away from the drug of choice, the addict’s tolerance level could decrease significantly. The problem lies mainly with intravenous drug users and alcoholics, as there is a fine line between injecting or drinking to excess to obtain a high and overdosing (Knezevich). Luckily, many prisons are recognizing this and taking steps to keep it from happening. Offering counseling and support groups for addicts in prison is common, but some prisons are taking a step further to curb the overdose upon release

Harm reduction is a non-judgmental and practical approach to prevent HIV/HCV seroconversions, overdose, death, and decrease adverse effects on self and community (NPNU Initiative, 2007). Successful prison harm reduction programs frequently include pharmacotherapy, which plays a key role in helping with withdrawal symptoms and relapse prevention. Numerous studies on the effectiveness of opioid maintenance treatments (OMT) such as methadone, buprenorphine, levo-alpha acetyl methadol (LAAM) and buprenorphine-naloxone have proven that the benefits of OMT pre-release are similar to community treatment (Hedrich et al. 2012). A substantial reduction in prison drug use was shown on studies reporting illicit opioid use, and the studies that compared OMT to no OMT during incarceration shown impressively large differences (Hedrich et al. 2012). The studies which reported drug injection activity found a considerable reduction in injecting and syringe sharing (Hedrich et al, 2012). An Australian OMT study measuring HIV/HCV seroconversion resulted in no HIV seroconversions during incarceration, with both the control group and treatment groups having a high HCV risk dominance with equivalent seroconversions in both groups. Dolan et al. (1998, 1996) determined a reduction in risk behaviors for continuous high dose (>60mg.) therapy versus limited low dose therapy. A 2001 Canadian study measuring inmate transgressions reported drug violations in prison shrank in the OMT group, while it amplified in the control group (Hedrich et al.

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

Being a college student-athlete is a full-time job, bouncing between the weight room, the court/field, classes, and film sessions. College athletics are extracurricular activities, but the schedules of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) tournaments require an extended period in which the student-athletes must miss school. Not only do they miss class, but they are absent for nationally televised games that make a lot of money and receive millions of viewers.

With substance abusers, they require different needs than the non abusers in prison or jails. Some may require some medical help. The medical help could help with withdraws that abusers will face while in jail or prison. They also need to see if there is any underlying mental illness. They also require more time with therapists, and others, since they should seek more time and help. They should also get group based programs, so that some can get the help and guidance they need from other inmates. Since others going through a program can relate more and share their story and how they have

Not only do they get incarcerated but they are consisntly being reincarceated. A study was done approved by The Washington State University Institutional Review Board, 105 women at a treatment center that previously were involved in illegal activities wanted to successfully finish treatment and maintain the ability to be safe and sober back in society. The women were not just previously involved in illegal activities but also have hide variety of history involving substance use and mental health issues. The programs main objective was to treat each individual for addiction and criminal behavior. Each individual was required to complete baseline assessment after a certain amount of weeks, in addition to collecting medical record. Soon they started the “Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention which wanted to help each individual realize they are in “automatic pilot” when it comes to relapse. Being an automatic pilot means being able to recognize cravings and what triggers the relapse. They taught each women in the study how to handle the want of relapsing in real life situations. The outcome showed that the the most helpful part of treatment was sober space taught at the end of treatment. The outcome showed that only approximately 11% of the women reported to relapse. The study showed that substance abuse for criminal offenders is an effective way to reduce reduce relapse rates. More treatments should look into the Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention study because it showed to have been more effective that usual treatment. It shows that active treatment in addition to after treatment care can be effective. This study shows various techniques that can be used for criminals to lower the relapse rate but can be used for treatment among individuals who are not criminals as

Those incarcerated today are not given the chance to change their behavior patterns, especially when it is in regard to drug addiction. The criminal justice system in general does not consider drug abuse as anything but a crime and does not think about treating the disease of addiction in order to reduce or eliminate the crimes that come as a

There are currently over two million people in our nation 's state and federal prisons and jails. Nearly one and a half million of these offenders occupy state and federal prisons, serving over a year in detention for felonies.(1) The most alarming statistic is the fact that the United States houses twenty five percent of the world 's inmates. A good percentage of these convicts are serving time for drug crimes, most of which are first time,

According to the Rand Corporation, “the total number of people incarcerated for drug offenses increased from 40,000 nationally in 1980 to 500,000 in 2010” (Kilmer). Not only do the individuals sentenced to prison for drug offenses suffer, but their families do as well. Nancy G. La Vigne,

inmates and the use of drugs, such as how is it easier for an inmate whom is

Titration Investigation Aim: The aim of my investigation is to determine the solubility of calcium Hydroxide solution with the aid of the titration process. Titration can be defined as the method of determining the concentration of a substance in solution by adding to it a standard reagent of known concentration in carefully measured amounts until a reaction of definite and known proportion is completed, as shown by a color change or by electrical measurement, and then calculating the unknown concentration. An example could be, a given volume of a solution of unknown acidity may be titrated with a base of known concentration until complete neutralization has occurred.

Drug abuse and crime is not a new concept and the statistics around the problem have continued to rise. According to (Office of Justice Programs, 2011), there were an estimated 1,846,400 state and local arrests for drug abuse in the United States. Additionally, 17 percent of state prisoners and 18 percent of federal inmates said they committed their current offense to obtain money for drugs (Office of Justice Programs, 2011). Based on this information, we can conclude that our criminal justice systems are saturated with drug abusers. The United States has the highest imprisonment rate and about 83 percent of arrests are for possession of illegal drugs (Prisons & Drug Offenders, 2011). Based on these figures, I can conclude that we should be more concerned about solving the drug abusers problems and showing them an alternative lifestyle rather than strict penalty of long term incarceration which will inevitably challenge their ability to be fully functioning citizens after release.

The United States Correctional System is often challenged as to whether it wants to rehabilitate drug offenders or punish them, and because of this it mostly does neither. Even though drug abuse and drug trafficking are widely spread national issues, the mental, social, and economic costs of "healing" through incarceration are only making the "disease" worse. Never before have more prisoners been locked up on drug offenses than today. Mixed with the extremely high risks of today's prison environment, the concept of incarceration as punishment for drug offenders cannot be successful. Without the correct form of rehabilitation through treatment within Michigan's Correctional System, drug

It is common knowledge that America has the world’s largest population of prisoners, and in 2008, a study was completed by the Pew Charitable Trusts which indicated that half of the inmates in jail and prison are serving time for nonviolent drug charges (http://www.pewstates.org/news-room/press-releases/new-pew-study-finds-36-percent-increase-in-prison-time-served-85899394970). Since the “War on Drugs” approach about forty years ago, the criminalization of the addict has done very little to address the problem of substance abuse in society. While there is no one clear cause of substance abuse, there have been patterns identified in substance abusers, that may be the underlying factors that lead to the addiction. Some of these factors include mental health and biology.