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Abstract The dependency of profits to promote sales to please shareholders and research and development of new products seem to be the mindset of the pharmaceutical industry. It is without question that the pharmaceutical companies only care about making a profit more than they do to help the people of the United States. Pharmaceutical companies and doctors that represent them are only acting in their own best interest; patients are the ones who are suffering the most. With that, new information

Mrs. Morrison-Robinson Writing 421 19 May 2017 Fentanyl’s Policy Solution Fentanyl is a powerful narcotic, one hundred times stronger than heroin (Sagan), that is rapidly becoming a national crisis in Canada. Fentanyl is often found within fake OxyContin pills or laced in other drugs such as heroin. Alberta and several cities in Ontario are seeing how fentanyl is affecting their provinces: in 2016 Alberta saw 343 fatal overdoses, Ontario saw 165 in 2015 (Cheung). The closest Canadian province, British

4. Profile of Scott County Located in the beautiful rolling hills of Southern Eastern Indiana, Scott County has suffered from decades of generational poverty with its associated problems like drug abuse. As of 2016, the population of the county was estimated to be 23,730, with about 97.9% of the residents being whites. The county ranks last among Indiana’s 92 counties on several fronts. It has the lowest life expectancy, 9% of the population is unemployed, 19% live below the poverty line, and 21%

it out of school seemed to be my only accomplishment that I have ever even made. Now, I am working at a hospital in California. No one there seems to know about my addiction. My addiction that I have had for 5 years, the one I have currently, is Oxycontin. As I walk into my office, I quickly close the door behind me. I sit down at my desk, and open up the drawer stocked with pens, pencils, paper, and books. I take out a pen and paper and clip the paper to my clipboard. My clipboard is where I write

Risk and Protective Factors: A Case Examination A brief description of the terms “risk” and “protective” factors According to Fraser and Terzian, 2005 (as cited by Frey, Mandlawitz, Perry, and Walker, 2016), “risk factor is any event, condition, or experience that increases the probability that a problem will be formed, maintained, or exacerbated” (p. 99). They defined protective factors as factors or behaviors, which reduces the likelihood of undesirable results. In basic terms, risk factors

A Euphoric Memory: The Effects of Heroin and Prescription Opiates Heroin, as an illicit drug, is very powerful. What a lot of people do not know is that prescription drugs, such as Oxycodone and Vicodin, can be more powerful and even more addictive than their opiate brother. Pharmaceuticals can be so addictive because they, unlike heroin itself, are legal and easy to acquire. However, they often lead to the use of heroin because heroin is incredibly inexpensive when compared to prescriptions. To

capabilities of decision-making will help assist the moral enhancement with these tasks. There have also been many neurochemicals that have been used to enhance cognitive abilities, which include increased attention span and cognition span. Drugs like OxyContin have also been used to help with empathy, and to make people feel happier. It may be believed that a drug like soma was only possible in Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, but perhaps not. Utilitarian’s have been pushing for human enhancement

The major experiences and patterns of interaction in my family include family strengths, substance and alcohol abuse, parent child relations, physical and mental disorders (Gehart, 2014, p. 239). The strengths of my family are: strong independent individuals who despite their medical and mental drawbacks are able to fight against these issues. The genogram showed alcohol and substance abuse on just my paternal side, however if you go back one more generation on my maternal side there would be more

Please keep in mind your purpose for trying to find out if someone is doing alcohol and/or drugs- To Identify and Help rather than Catch and Punish. General: General and specific guides to detection of alcohol and drug use, and definition of addiction. Contents:I. General Guide to Detection II. Definition of Addiction III. Pupil Dilation IV. Signs and Symptoms V. Paraphernalia a) S/S Chart Version VI. Drug Facts VII. Articles and Other Resources VIII. Drug Pictures/Resources IX. Topics X. Additional

of the same positive and negative side effects. As a country, we are currently the largest consumer of opioids in the world; almost the entire world supply of hydrocodone (the opioid in Vicodin) and 81% of the world’s oxycodone (in Percocet and OxyContin) is used by the United States (Volkow). Along with consuming most of the world’s most common opioids, we have gone from 76 million of these prescriptions in 1991 to 207 million in 2013 – constantly increasing except for a small decrease starting