WEBSITE REVIEW AND SUMMARY: OPIOID PAINKILLERS 1 Website Review and Summary: Opioid Painkillers Shannon Gardner HCS/457 Public and Community Health November 23‚ 2014 Monica Vargas WEBSITE REVIEW AND SUMMARY: OPIOID PAINKILLERS 2 Website Review and Summary: Opioid Painkillers Negative consequences associated with the misuse use and overprescribing of the opioid painkiller drug is being seen in urban and suburban areas‚ rural communities‚ and the inner cities
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Opioids such as OxyContin and Vicodin‚ are the most widespread prescribed painkiller for the treatment of moderate to chronic pain. While opioids are highly effective in masking the pain temporarily‚ these drugs are highly addictive. Many patients‚ especially those who take more than the prescribed amount‚ often develop a dependency on these drugs‚ resulting in addiction. There is growing evidence that opioid drugs are being widely prescribed and abused‚ causing an increase in healthcare costs. To
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Comp 111 April 26‚ 2013 Needless Suffering A recent trend in drug seeking behavior has led many physicians to stop the practice of prescribing painkillers‚ stirring a debate on whether physicians have an ethical responsibility to treat pain even though some patients are abusing the drugs prescribed. Some argue that not prescribing painkillers is up to the physicians because it is their practice at stake. The problem with this line of thinking is that it draws an invisible line in the sand
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heroin. However‚ medical marijuana and medical marijuana laws are bringing awareness to the many health benefits to be had from cannabis compounds such as THC and CBD. In fact‚ medical marijuana appears to be linked to a reduction in prescription painkiller use. According to a recent report‚ published in the journal Health Affairs‚ “In
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Even though people do not believe they are addicted‚ painkillers are addicting because painkillers that are being misused are deadly and they are a hard habit to break. Many people are using and abusing painkillers which are prescription drugs and some may say that they are not and will not admit it. The effects of prescription abuse are painfully obvious and needed at the same time. Having a habit can lead to painkillers being addicted and when they are being misused there can be a
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team in order to get pills or to make them think he is not addicted. In one episode Wilson gave into House and gave him painkillers‚ House gave them back to Wilson saying he didn’t need them. Normally one would think he doesn’t need them because he is able to relieve his pain in other was. In reality House was able to get painkillers on his own. House received these other painkillers because he broke into Wilson’s office to write himself a prescription‚ which is the third behavior‚ breaking and entering
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Marvin D. Seppala M.D. a chief medical officer stated in his book Prescription Painkillers: History‚ Pharmacology‚ and Treatment. "Drugs have been used for millennia in their natural form." “These agents were reprocessed and made more widely available in highly refined and far more potent forms- among them morphine and heroin (refined from opium leaves) and cocaine (from coco leaves) (p8)." Although prescription painkillers are legal in the United States with a prescription from a physician‚ many Americans
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solve with them. The real answer is to get the facts and not to take drugs in the first place. Something that is not known by most young people is the risk they are taking by consuming these highly potent and mind altering drugs. Long term use of painkillers can lead to dependence‚ even for people who are prescribed them to relieve a medical condition but eventually get caught up in an
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one that has come up lately is painkillers‚ and opioids. Painkillers can be very dangerous if you get addicted to them. There has to be a way we can teach teens and show them what they really can do to you. Seniors have been exposed to
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Scrumptious flavors and aromas accompanied a night filled with great music in Hennepin Avenue’s Famous Dave’s restaurant‚ where Tommy Castro and the Painkillers put on a show like no other. Tommy Castro lived up to his reputation of being former BB King Entertainer of the Year on Friday‚ October 7th‚ as he moved the entire crowd through his music and stories. This foot-tapping music was perfectly complemented with Famous Dave’s All American Feast‚ which consisted of mouth-watering ribs‚ flavor-filled
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