Opiate

Opiates Should be Outlawed in the United States Opiates, otherwise known as prescription painkillers, have become an enormous problem in the United States. Addiction, overdoses, and death are only a few of the problems caused by opiates. Painkillers can be prescribed to help lessen chronic pain, pain from surgery, pain from serious accidents, or pain from terminal diseases. Opiates are highly addicting and have become highly abused in the United States in the past few years. Prescription painkillers

to prescription medications, but more specifically opiates. Opiates are used to help treat chronic and severe pain, but the drug can become highly addictive. In recent years, more people have overdosed as a result of prescription medications than both heroin and cocaine combined. How Ohio is Trying to Fight the Problem In Ohio, stage legislatures are fighting to pas drug abuse bills to help prevent people from abusing different types of opiates. Over the years, pharmaceutical companies have been

Opiate Addiction: A Health Crisis at Home When people picture a drug addict, many individuals may see the same picture of a dirty, disgusting, maybe even homeless, individual that has no place in this world. While addicts like this do exist, the wide spread of the current opiate addiction crisis has completely changed the worlds perception. The word opiate is a wide spread term for a group of narcotics that cause sedation, respiratory failure, and if used excessively, can result in death. However

Opiate Addiction is an Ongoing Crisis in America On October 27, 2017, Dr. Arlether Wilson, PhD., contributing author for the Huffington Post, published the article titled “Opiate Addiction in an Ongoing Crisis in America” which states that Walgreens is going to start stocking Narcan over the counter, which is an opiate reversing drug. It is no mystery that opiate addiction is out of control and a major epidemic in our country. The article also states, “According to The British Journal of Clinical

precisely, opiate addiction might affect a housewife next door, a graduate student, a grandparent, a teacher, doctor, lawyer, celebrity, beauty queen, model, baby sitter, or the teen delivering the newspaper. Opiate addiction is a new phenomena that is slowly taking over the country. Just about everyone knows someone that has experienced a drug problem now or in the past. However, opiate addiction treatment has saved numerous lives. Understanding Opiates Most people that were prescribed opiates did not

The opiate addiction crisis in the US In recent years, chronic pain has been affecting millions of Americans. Whether it is headaches or backaches, chronic pain can be continuous and excruciating for many. Pain management and relief have been mainly treated with prescriptions of opiates. However, people don’t realize that the number of deaths caused by over dosing has increased. This prevalence of prescribing opiates to aid chronic pain has triggered an addiction problem across the US. Although opiates

brain in the body and it’s different parts that come together to form the most complex organ in the body and what drug use and abuse can do both in the short term and long term. The focus of this paper will be on two specific substances; cocaine and opiates. It will examine what each substance and does to the brain and what, if any, long term affects it has on the brain. As mentioned before the human brain is the most complex organ in the body that is made up of many parts. The areas of the brain that

Opiate addiction has started to become an epidemic in northeastern Indiana, affecting the lives of about 39,000 people in Allen County alone. U.S. health officials estimate 75 percent of the nearly 21 million people affected by opiate addiction, including family members of addicts, are part of the national workforce. The Indiana Attorney General’s office reported 80 percent of Hoosier employers have spotted signs of prescription drug abuse in the work place. The Allen County Health Department

Dragon The most dangerous opiate there is, heroin is a potent and quick hitting drug that poses many risks to living an enjoyable life. Opiates like morphine are substances with qualities similar to opium, which derives from the poppy plant. To understand how tempting a painkiller like this might sound to the oblivious person, it is important to know what type of effects that using heroin will bring about. New users typically start by smoking or sniffing it, but like many opiates, developing a tolerance

there has been a huge rise in the amount of deaths due to heroin overdose and addiction. Heroin and opiate addiction is something that needs to be recognized within our society in order to help protect one another. In this essay, I will explore the different methods of treatment, health insurance issues, and how the addicts affect the society. Information involving treatment for heroin and opiate addicts needs to be more prevalent in society because we do not hear much about how to treat addicts