Care Management Individuals who use Opioids are Addicts Presented By Donovan Greenfield Presented to Professor Jessica Felizardo March 17, 2016 THESIS STATEMENT Individuals who use Opioids are Addicts? Outline Thesis Statement History of Opioids & Statistics What drugs are considered Opioids? When was Opioids Created? What Era patients first prescribed Opioids? Americas usage with Opioids Estimated number in the U.S. who are addicted Death toll in Massachusetts
Care Management Individuals who use Opioids are Addicts Presented By Donovan Greenfield Presented to Professor Jessica Felizardo March 17, 2016 THESIS STATEMENT Individuals who use Opioids are Addicts? Outline Thesis Statement History of Opioids & Statistics What drugs are considered Opioids? When was Opioids Created? What Era patients first prescribed Opioids? Americas usage on Opioids Estimated number in the U.S. who are addicted Death toll in Massachusetts
Care Management Individuals who use Opioids are Addicts Presented By Donovan Greenfield Presented to Professor Jessica Felizardo March 17, 2016 THESIS STATEMENT Individuals who use Opioids are Addicts? Outline Thesis Statement History of Opioids & Statistics What drugs are considered Opioids? When was Opioids Created? What Era patients first prescribed Opioids? Americas usage with Opioids Estimated number in the U.S. who are addicted Death toll in Massachusetts
based on reliable scientific principles. The information in this book will provide that guidance. There are many options for the treatment of opioid addiction. Those proven safe and effective are remarkably helpful. Others do not come with proof of effectiveness or safety and may do far more harm than good. Snake oil remedies have no place in the treatment of opioid addiction, an illness that can literally claim a life in a heartbeat and does so more than 50 times every day. The treatment options I describe
full of irony. The poppy, a beautiful flower, is the source of opium, a raw pain-killing substance regularly cultivated and harvested in the East, where it was widely used. Tragically, Europe and America imported the drug and adopted its unregulated use. Though legal, the opium dens of the early 19th century certainly oppressed the lives of the poor, taking what little money they had and offering a dangerous environment in which to dream drug induced dreams. But businessmen, aristocrats, authors
parents dead of a double OD, but in today’s opioid crisis, more people than ever before are facing the havoc this epidemic is wreaking on society. For the U.S. to obliterate the
Opioid addiction develops and perpetuates from a carefully arranged interplay of six factors: 1. Pleasure 2. Reinforcement 3. Tolerance 4. Withdrawal 5. Cravings 6. Social, medical, or legal problems Addiction typically develops when all six factors follow their natural course. These six elements form the basis of what I call the “Addiction Jigsaw Puzzle.” Let’s look at each of these six factors in the order they usually develop. PLEASURE It is human nature, often unconsciously driven, to choose
completely empty. Hydrocodone is one of the common types of opioids that is causing many problems in the world today. In America, opioids have become a big issue. To this day, they still do not have a cure. But, they do have techniques to help prevent overdoses. Instead of being bystanders just reading about opioid overdoses or listening to talks about them and how they are affecting our country, they all can help out and make this crisis. Opioids came about in the late 1890s and early 1900s. In 1898
decade, and does not seem to be coming to a halt anytime soon. There needs to be more of an unrelenting attempt and effort to target prevention for opioid abuse, dependence, and death. This article by Rudd et al. describes the statistics of drug overdoses between 2000 and 2014 in the United States, and highlights the dramatic increase particularly with opioid overdoses. The article also demonstrates that this increasing epidemic does not discriminate with gender or race. However, the article points out
information. To understand addiction, you first must learn its language—how addiction develops and why addicts continue to use despite the harm it inevitably causes. Addiction is a mysterious illness because it seems to make such little sense to the onlooker and even to the addict. Addicts are prone to repeating their poor choices because they do not process information correctly. All addicts have poor insight and poor judgment when using. It is part of the illness of addiction. Addiction is a dangerous