Response To Opiates Analysis

Alcohol abuse and Opiate addiction continues to impacts millions of lives in the United States every day. The situation is so bad that government and private partners are coming together to establish treatment centers for opiate addiction. Many states in U.S have more than 20 drug treatment centers and rehabilitation facilities.

mends the Controlled Substances Act to increase the number of patients that a qualifying practitioner dispensing narcotic drugs for maintenance or detoxification treatment is initially allowed to treat from 30 to 100 patients per year.

On 10/25/15 I arrived at 6011 Jacksonville-Conway Road in reference to a possible shooting call. Upon arrival I made contact with Margaret Davis, who advised that on this date her ex-husband, Jerry Davis, shot himself at his residence. I observed Mr. Davis in a medical bed in the living room of his residence with a small caliber handgun in his right hand and laying on his chest. I also observed a spent .22 Long Rifle cartridge laying on Mr. Davis' shirt next to his right hand. Mr. Davis did not have any immediately observable wounds but he did have a small area of blood coming from around his mouth and was obviously deceased. Sgt. Bowden was notified of the incident. MEMS unit #619 responded to check for signs of life on Mr. Davis and medical instruments indicated a shallow arrhythmia. MEMS began CPR on Mr. Davis and

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention states that since 1999 the number of overdose deaths involving opioids has quadrupled. The number of opioid involved deaths continues to increase in the United States. That 91 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose. The driving factor in the overdoses is from prescription opioids

Availability of opioids puts more and more people at risk for addiction. A simple prescription from the doctor for a migraine or back pain can turn into an addiction. Doctors are faced daily with patients who complain of pain, acute and chronic. It has become a simple solution for them to write out a prescription for pain medication to help their patient. In turn, not helping them at all. The supply chain is short in the use and misuse of opioids. This runs from the prescribing physician to the patient and the prescription drug abuser, which is often the same person. The vast majority of illicitly used prescription opioids are obtained from physicians, not drug dealers. People are seeking out pain medication through their primary physicians

Opioid pain medications are some of the most commonly abused prescription drugs. Between 1991 and 2010, opioid prescriptions rose from about 75.5 million to 209.5 million. Americans account for 4.6% of the world’s population but consume approximately 80% of the world’s opioid supply. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 12 million people used prescription painkillers for nonmedical reasons in 2010. Opioid abuse has led to increases in emergency-department visits, hospitalizations, and admissions to substance-abuse treatment centers at a time when our healthcare system is already strained. Prescription drug abuse accounts for the greatest percentage of drug-overdose deaths. The CDC reports that in 2008,

Another effective treatment option for opioid (opiate) addiction is a medication called Buprenorphine. Buprenorphine is an opioid medication similar to the ones prescribed for chronic pain and may still cause a person to have withdrawal when the treatment is started. When a health care provider mixes Buprenorphine with naloxone the mixture will block the feeling from the other opioids. The two medications put together are called suboxone. It acts as an opioid receptor in the brain that controls cravings and sickness from not having opiates. The fact that it blocks the feeling one gets from taking opiates is very helpful in the treatment process because if the abuser feels like they want and need to use opiates, doing so won’t be effective for

We turned on the machine and listened to the prompts and it told us to stand back,charging , then my manager told me to press the big button on the AED to deliver the shock. I did what he told me then the AED machine told ue to continue CPR so we did i was still on compressions and anthony was still on rescue breaths we continues for 25 more min till the Emergency team came and gave us a hand on of the EMS hooked her up to the air tank and told me to continue compressions and told me we had to get her to a conscious state in order to move her to the ambulance. So i continued compressions and 20 min later she started to cough and we knew she had regained conscious. We all cheered but the EMS said it is still too early to cheer so we asked them what else we could

An example of imperfection in medicine that Gawande proposed was his own account that he had. Actually there were multiple mistakes according to the current circumstances. Gawande comments on blunders in medicine by stating, “Mistakes do happen. We think of them as aberrant; they are anything but.” (Groopman and Jesse Cohen, pg 4) When the patient, known as “Louis Williams”, was wheeled in; she was unresponsive and not conscious. Williams was not getting enough oxygen to her body, so Gawande’s unit had to perform tracheostomy. Her oxygen levels were fairly low, and the whole unit was attempting to work quickly and efficiently to get her oxygen levels back up to the normal levels. Gawande especially was working at an exceptionally fast rate.

Cape May County has a serious problem with heroin. Different law enforcement strategies and educational programs can help stop this problem. Heroin is an opioid drug that is synthesized from morphine, which is a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seed pod of the Asian opium poppy plant. Heroin usually appears as a white or brown powder or as a black sticky matter known as “black tar heroin”. Heroin can be smoked, inhaled or injected, all deliver the drug extremely rapidly. The rapid effects contribute to the health risks and high risk for addiction.

September 12, 2014, what I thought would be a normal Friday. I got up to get dressed for my 1:00 p.m. appointment. I was 37 weeks and I could not wait to get my ultrasound done to see my beautiful little girl and to hear her fast paced heartbeat. It started out as a regular doctors' visit. As I was patiently waiting to be called to the back, all I could do was pace back and forth in anticipation because I was growing closer and closer to the end and all I wanted was to be dilated. Well 1:30 came around and I heard, "Ms. Ball," I said "yes that would be me" and walked what seemed like a long hallway. I was approached by the ultrasound tech and she wanted me to lay down and get prepared for my ultrasound. Usually when I got ultrasounds completed, they usually last about 10 minutes and the technician goes into detail about the baby weight, height, heartbeat and

Out of nowhere one day, my best friend Michael stopped going to school and it was like he disappeared. Then during 5th period I heard Mr.Vaughn on the loudspeaker saying “I regret to inform you that one of our students has passed on. We will hold a memorial service for Michael Dobson during assembly this Friday”. I let the announcement sink in for a good minute and and felt like my brain was bouncing back and forth. My knees fell to the ground hoping it was some sort of prank but as I looked up, I saw Mrs.Jackie crying her eyes out with the other students. My head started to spin which eventually made me go unconcious. I woke up in the nurse's office and I see the nurse restocking her cabinet with new bandages. She took notice of me and calmly

In late October of 2012 I was leaving another 12-hour shift on Camp Taji, Iraq to walk approximately a mile to volunteer at the tactile care clinic. I had just submitted my application to medical school and I wanted to make sure I was gaining medical experience in preparation for my transition to civilian life. On the way to the clinic, I couldn’t help but question why our base had not been hit by an artillery attack in 13 days and whether my analysis was correct trying to predict the enemies next launch site. As an intelligence officer, it was my duty to assign areas of interest to an attack helicopter battalion providing overwatch in order to predict and prohibit the next attack. We averaged an attack approximately every 8 days and the

I was fourteen year old when I got that letter in the mail that I thought changed my whole life. The beginning of the letter and of course all I read said “we would like to invite you to join the Medic Explorer post 911”. You see since I was little all I wanted to do was be part of the rescue team. I did not know what that really entailed excepted I knew it was for me, so you see this was my chance to start my journey little did I know at the time my journey had already begun.

Dr.Death was a brilliant scientist, who specialized in animal science. Now, just because Dr.Death was a brilliant scientist, you may be thinking,”Wow! He must be really nice to be a brilliant scientist”, but Dr.Death was a horrible, cruel scientist. His specialization was animal science, in a cruel way. He would do experiments on helpless animals, most of the time failing and killing the poor animals. ”Death”, was his catchphrase.