Opioid overdose

There have been several news coverages on TV and social network about drug overdose of different cases recently and they have risen people’s concern about the problems of drug abuse national-wide. The drug abuse and opioid epidemic is not a new problem to the American society, actually it has been a serious problem for many years. So what is the situation of drug epidemic now, and how can we find effective ways to deal with this problem? A few writers who ponder this question are Nora D. Volkow,

apart families, destroyed lives, and deaths are all results of Opioid overdoses. The question is why do people take opioids and what are they? According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse “Opioid are drugs formulated to replicate the pain reducing properties of opium. They include both painkillers such as morphine, oxycodone, or hydrocodone prescribed by doctors for chronic pain, as well

paid to the foothold opioids have gained in rural America (U.S. DHHS, 2012). As rates of drug addiction rise throughout the Midwest and Ohio, rates of hospitalization and drug poisoning deaths also increase. While extant data does not elucidate a causal relationship between these variables, strong correlations are evident. Furthermore, the lack of information about this issue highlights the need for more accurate data collection in order to resolve the

The exploitation and overdoses of opioids, which includes morphine, heroin, and other pain medicines, is a serious public health epidemic in the United States. This constant maltreatment of these drugs by individuals has caused them their lives and misery to their families. According to the National Institute of Health on Drug Abuse (NIDA), “ In 2013, 1.9 million people suffered from substance use disorders related to opioid medicines and 517,000 suffered from a heroin use disorder.” There have also

euphoric effects. There are many short and long term effects when used or abused. Short term effects of heroin use include slowed cardiac system functions and breathing, intense itching, dry mouth, drowsiness and convulsions- especially in a case of an overdose. Long term effects include both mental and physical impairments, the mental issues include emotional instability and diminished libido. Other physical effects include impaired vision, collapsed veins, liver and kidney disease. Heroin users also often

Usages As mentioned above, opioids are extremely helpful in killing acute and cancer pain. Because opioid receptors are G-protein coupled reactions, the inhibitory G-protein is usually coupled or attached with the receptors (Ghelardini et al., 2015, page 219). The onset of reaction in inhibit the pain is rapid and effective due to multiple inhibitory actions at the terminal site (refer to the previous section of mechanism of action). Besides, the interaction of opioids gradually increases the threshold

from the overdose of drugs. The fact that Americas drug problem has gotten this out of hand is alarming, but when taking a closer look at these numbers, it becomes clear that many of these Americans are not dying from illegal drugs like cocaine, meth, heroin, or marijuana. Instead, legal opioid painkillers were the biggest cause of overdose, resulting in approximately 14,000 deaths in 2014. In the 1990s, doctors began treating chronic pain as a serious issue, prescribing large amounts of opioid painkillers

percentage rate of overdosing. According to CNN news Health and law enforcement officials believe that Counterfeit pain pills are the source of a spike in overdose deaths in the Sacramento, California, area. Forty-two people have been treated for overdoses and 10 have died since March 23, 2010 according to the DEA’s San Francisco division. “The overdoses are occurring at an alarming rate,” the DEA said. The agency thinks contaminated drugs are responsible. There are a plethora of drugs that are used as

Over the past couple of years, the use of opioid painkillers has skyrocketed. And due to this, so has the number of overdoses. The opioid epidemic is the worst drug crisis that the United States has ever seen. Killing thousands of people and sending many more to either drug rehabilitation programs or prison. Yet doctors continue to prescribe these addictive painkillers, to patients with little to no restrictions. There are many safer options than these opioids, including the use of marijuana, which

Do opioids have only harmful effects or they provide medical help in human as well? The drugs that create a neurologic effect and disrupts the entire nervous system due to overuse. We always take a dark side of opioids when the term is used. It is a prescription drug in medical world which exercises neural cells and creates a molecular and biochemical response in the body. It might not be good nor be worse, It is just a drug used in society to cure Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other neurological