The United States represents 5 percent of the world’s population yet it consumes 75 percent of the world’s prescription drugs. A prescription drug is a medicine crafted by pharmaceutical companies that legally requires a medical prescription to be dispensed. In contrast‚ Illegal drugs are obtained unlawfully through undocumented transaction. Due to substance abuse these prescription and illicit drugs combined‚ kill tens of thousands of people each year. The three mainly abused types of prescription
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Impact on Community The epidemic has many negative consequences regarding impact on community. “Heroin is a highly addictive opioid drug‚ and its use has repercussions that extend far beyond the individual user” (National Institute on Drug Abuse). “The medical and social consequences of drug use- such as hepatitis‚ HIV/AIDS‚ fetal effects‚ crime‚ violence‚ and disruptions in family‚ workplace‚ and educational environments- have devastating impact on society and cost billions of dollars each year”
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intelligent and humane person in the world society and international organizations such as the UN and WHO are alarmed by the present rate of addiction. Nowadays nearly ten per cent of outpatients in our hospitals are cases of drug addiction involving heroin‚ ganja and phensidyl. These are generally youths and young men between 15-30 years of age and come from all strata of the society. But there are adolescents below 15 years of age and men and women over 30. Hospital surveys show that average age of
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In todays society drug usage is heavily linked to depression and loneliness. Similarly two hundred thousand troops in the Vietnam War where not in combat units meaning that they had to much time on there hands. The troops began to experiment with heroin found in southeast Asia. As said by Harold E. Hughes “narcotics are as readily available as chewing gum and cigarettes in this country.” Meaning that troops had no trouble at all finding low cost drugs. But the reason as to why they resorted to drugs
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drug. The exchange of morphine addiction for that of alcohol was considered positive for the reason that alcohol was harder on the body‚ and more likely to trigger antisocial behavior. By the time heroin was discovered in 1874‚ morphine had already addicted hundreds of thousands of people. Soon heroin found its way to the level of morphine and codeine. Since the practice of selling patent medicines had no regulation until 1906‚ with the Pure Food and Drug Act‚ it was common to simply mail order
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others are all naturally occuring in opium.) Morphine is refined by cooking raw opium with chemicals like lye‚ and ammonia. Pure morphine is the world standard of painkillers‚ and generally the number one choice of doctors for treating severe pain. Heroin
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change their mental/emotional state. Legal‚ social‚ and health problems multiplied after people began to smoke it‚ when it became a lucrative source of income for governments and trading companies‚ when it was refined to the stronger morphine and heroin and when it could be delivered directly into the bloodstream using a hypodermic needle. The discovery of psychoactive plants (opium poppy‚ coca bush‚
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The Physiological Effects and Reactive effects of a Narcotic Overdose Narcotic overdoses have become an ever-increasing public health emergency in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Narcotics‚ defined by the Miriam-Webster Dictionary as “a drug that in moderate doses dulls the senses‚ relieves pain‚ and induces profound sleep but in excessive doses causes stupor‚ coma‚ or convulsions‚” has long been part of medical treatment and illegal usage. Overdose‚ was also defined by Miriam-Webster
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substance abusers poly drug use. Although heroin users don’t as a rule drink alcohol when on heroin (alcohol and heroin can cause a fatal overdose.) Cocaine (professional drug) use in Melbourne has been minimal‚ because Cocaine makes people hyper alert (there has not been a Cocaine overdose in Melbourne). It appears that Cocaine is widely spread in the hospitality industry to keep people AWAKE! HEROIN is the opposite it slows you down. Heroin is a major concern with young mother’s using/or
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if he/she then took heroin or morphine. It’s purpose is to eliminate an addicts desire for heroin‚ with minimal side effects. Mainly‚ heroin addicts receive methadone to reduce or prevent future heroin use. Some physicians also prescribe methadone for pain relief. * Oxycontin’s active ingredient is oxycodone‚ which is a synthetic drug closely related to morphine and heroin in its chemical structure. Oxycontin is an analgesic that has affects similar to those of heroin. Used to treat chronic
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