Opioid overdose

Opioid use in the US has increased over the years, and this has led to an increase in substance abuse. Substance abuse is not only associated with use of illicit drugs but also prescription drugs. In 2015, of the 20.5 million reported cases of substance abuse, 2 million had an abuse disorder related to prescription pain relievers and 591,000 associated with heroin.1 The increase in substance abuse disorder has led to an increase in opioid related death. In 2015 drug overdose was the leading cause

The opioid crisis is wiping out our future generations by the numbers. 91 people are dying every day from an opioid overdose. Nearly ½ of the US opioid overdoses are caused by prescription opioids. We may not think that this can happen to us, but it can and it is. The opioid overdoses used to be something that we saw on the news but now it's come and knocking on our front doors of our communities. The epidemic is hard in bigger areas but imagine the effects on the small towns, or the close-knit communities

is the current opioid epidemic in our society. There has been a significant increase in the use of opioid analgesics for pain control. There is a corresponding growth in the rate of abuse, misuse, and overdose of these drugs. As a nurse, I had witnessed and continue to witness patients coming in the emergency room from opioids overdose between the ages of 12 and 25 and this situation continue to increase in number. There is a significant increase in number of teenagers using opioid they buy from the

Death by drug overdose is quickly becoming a leading cause of death in the United States, surpassing deaths from automobile accidents and firearm related deaths in 2013. Prior to the 1990’s, opioid medications were only used to treat severe pain, mostly pain due to severe accidents, surgery or cancer. This changed when Purdue Pharmaceuticals initiated an aggressive, misleading campaign for their new powerful opioid drug Oxycontin. Alleged to be a non-addictive wonder drug suitable for almost any

• Since 2000, opioid drug overdoses have jumped 200%. (Article 1) • In 2014, 47,055 people died from drug overdoses. (Article 1) • From 2014 to 2015 natural opiates such as morphine, codeine and semisynthetic prescription pain killers like oxycodone and hydrocodone jumped 10%. (Article 1) • The states with the highest rates of overdose were West Virginia, New Mexico, New Hampshire, Kentucky and Ohio. (Article 1) • Obama has given 1.1 billion dollars to things includes other efforts to expand addiction

epidemic only this time it is the worst opioid overdose epidemic the world has seen since the late 1990’s. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC 2016), “since 1999, the number of overdose deaths involving opioids has quadrupled.” Opioids (including prescription opioids and heroin) killed more than 33,000 people in 2015, more than any year on record. (Rudd, Seth, David, School, 2015). With overdoses from heroin, prescription drugs, and opioid pain relievers surpassing car accidents

The effects of opioid overdose are traumatic, devastating, and preventable. It is estimated that there are 128,000 people addicted to opioids in New Jersey (Stirling, 2015). Furthermore, many of those addicted to the drug heroin became so after being prescribed narcotic pain killers. This is because when the prescription runs out the addiction is still in place. Those addicted can find pills being sold illegally but they can cost up to 30 dollars a pill. Heroin, costing only 5 dollars a bag

Human Services (HHS) (2013) reported that U.S. prescription drugs, especially opioids analgesics, have been increasingly involved in drug overdose deaths. Unfortunately, drug overdose deaths from prescription drugs, especially opioids analgesics outnumbered deaths related to motor vehicle accidents back in 2009. Actually, in 2010 only, 16,651 deaths were connected to opioids overdose, an increase of 60 percent of overdose losses from any other drug class, prescribed or illegal. Specifically, in Florida

Opioid use disorder, most often touted as opioid abuse, tolerance and addiction are all manifestations of this chronic relapsing disease that can be developed when an individual is repeatedly exposed to illicit drugs. Opioid addiction and overdose is a global issue that is rapidly sweeping across our nation. There is irrefutable evidence suggesting that we are in an opioid addiction epidemic. Over a ten-year time-span, drug overdose has become the leading cause of accidental death in the United States

Prescription Opioids Overdose Did you know that 91 Americans die every day due to an Opioid overdose and yet American’s still report no relief of pain? Since 1999 the number of deaths due to prescriptions opioid or heroin overdose has quadrupled (http://www.cdc.gov). Four out of five Americans turned to the black market for heroin, which initially started as an opioid drug addiction. It is an American crisis, due to the number of individuals that consume oxycodone, which accounts for eight-one