...OxyContin is a powerful painkiller with addictive properties that are similar to street-grade heroin. In the past several years, there has been a stunning rise in the amount of people seeking treatment for opioid addiction, especially in teens. Unfortunately, OxyContin and its counterpart Oxycodone has wreaked havoc on thousands of lives and ended the lives of countless others. The drugs powerful addictive properties causes many people to suffer from terrible withdrawal symptoms when they try to rid their bodies from the drug. Many substance abuse experts in the United States believe that opioid abuse is at epidemic proportions. One of the biggest problems facing the country today is the rise in people, namely teens, turning to heroin to feed their opioid addiction. Street-level heroin is far cheaper than opioids such as OxyContin, Percocet, Vicodin and Morphine. In addition, the rise in heroin use leads to increased criminal activity since those who are addicted to the drug will often times go to any lengths to feed their intense craving for the drug. Over Prescribing Opioids in the U.S....
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...Price sought OxyContin prescriptions from at least 10 dissimilar doctors from 10 different clinics in two cities, packing prescriptions at seven pharmacies in three cities. The practice was notified of Price’s demeanor so the doctors part Price’s management. Price then thread pursuit, maintain his practice, pharmacies, and the pharmaceutical companies that manufactured OxyContin had infringement their respect by imperfection to adequately admonishing him of the addictive quality of OxyContin. Under neglect legal action the medical/distributor/druggist does have a payment of regard long of elegant awareness and the tip from the manufacturer, he is in the condition to finish whether a critical medicate is proper for a composed or not. However, the justice also quality that it is the irresponsibleness of the crew to seek of the worth of a medicate to judgment an illegal drug and offer token that it is unhurt and efficient. In the US the FDA demonstrate/condemn the medicate after statistical analysis...
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...Oxycontin, which is the brand name for the medication oxycodone, is a powerful painkiller that is prescribed to those who are struggling with moderate or severe aches or pains. It greatly aids those who suffer from chronic pains that can be a result of cancer, burns, heart attacks, or bone pains. This drug provides patients with hours of pain relief. It is very similar to heroin because it stimulates the reward center of the brain producing a euphoric high. It is only available through a prescription from a physician for pain relief and is a narcotic. Despite this, Oxycontin is often sold on the street by names such as; cotton, kickers, pills, oxycotton, heroin hillbilly, orange county, ox, oCs, and os. People started abusing Oxycontin almost as soon as it hit the market. The way that this abuse has been tracked is by accounting for the number of injuries attributed to Oxycontin. Patients would take much high does than they were recommended to, and would crush, snort, or inject the powder. These methods of consuming the drug can result in an overdose fairly quickly. According to the National Drug Intelligence center, the death rates caused by this drug have been going up ever since the drug was released. According to the US Department of Justice, there are more than 13 million individuals who abuse this drug and use is for recreational purposes. In New York alone, it was reported that there was an 82% rise in prescriptions for Oxycontin from 2007 to 2010. This...
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...Corporate greed, by definition, is when a company chooses to place significance on increasing profits in a way that harms employees, consumers and the environment. It occurs when making money becomes the only goal, and the other company’s social responsibility is ignored. There is some debate with companies over whether they are being greedy versus looking for the best business practice. How can one tell if a company’s practice is defined as corporate greed or if the company is just working to reduce costs in order to increase profit growth? How much social responsibility does a company have to society and the environment? An article written by Edmund Bradley, about the problem with corporate greed, gave a perspective on these questions stating that “However greedy or altruistic a business person happens to be, the institutions of the market channel his or her motivation to a social end. Business must serve society in order to thrive,” (Bradley, 2003). In order for a business to grow and expand, they need to make a positive impression on society. Especially in today’s market, with consumers focusing on what companies are doing to the environment and how to find ‘green’ products. Society want to know that the companies making millions of dollars are using their influence and power to do good things in the world around them. Another perspective, however, is that companies have to only focus on the growth and profit of the company. They should work to please shareholders...
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...It was believed any amount of opioid analgesic would produce addicts, leading to an pain being left untreated. Pain advocates worked to dispel prevailing myths about pain building character, babies and the non-verbal not feeling pain, but they also worked to discredit those who were concerned with the addictiveness of these drugs. Even as Dahl found studies that claimed opioid addiction rates were around one percent, it was a clear deviation from scientific literature of that time. As this field of study’s research has become more robust is extremely clear even with “responsible” usage addiction rates are as high as ten percent. Regardless, Dahl and her peers pushed the safety of opioids like OxyContin even as recently as a few years ago, with Professor Dahl maintaining “opioid and heroin deaths are a small percentage of the population, and the media largely ignore the broader crisis of undertreated pain”. In 2014, there were a reported sixteen thousand deaths attributed to opioid overdose, now opioid overdose involved deaths surpass the number of people who die from breast cancer every year. At this point, it is clearly recognized that opioids have been overprescribed to patients dealing with pain. The important point to make here is the first recommendations towards...
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...Hydromorphone (Dilaudid), OxyContin, Oxymorphone (Opana), and diacetylmorphine (heroin) are all full agonist opioids, which means that they bind to the endogenous opioid receptors, especially the mu-receptor, with high affinity (binding strength) and high efficacy (strength of drug) and therefore the more a person takes of these opioids the more pain relief they receive, the more respiratory depression they experience, and so on. This is evident in that if an individual abuses these drugs, their tolerance increases, which requires a higher dosage of the drug to reach that same "baseline". Suboxone on the other hand is a partial agonist,...
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...Walgreens Management Challenges Lauren Smith August 11, 2015 MGT2037 It all started with Charles R. Walgreen and an innovative idea to change the way pharmacies and drug stores were run. After leaving Dixon, Illinois Walgreen started his journey to Chicago where he worked a long side many innovative pharmacists of his time. He had a strong desire to give customers exceptional customer service, give customers a selection of many goods that were affordable, and to offer customers high quality prescriptions while keeping costs low. He decided to open Walgreens Drugstore and never imagined that one day Walgreens would be the largest drugstore chain in the United States. Walgreens may be the most successful drugstore chain, but it certainly didn’t get this way without its fair share of challenges along the way. By 1930 there were over 500 chains and was well on its way to becoming a major contender in the pharmacy business. When the Great Depression hit, like any other business his stores were affected by the slowing dying economy. However, he used this time to keep changing his business for the better. Upon his death in 1939, Walgreen left his company and well trained management team to his son, who continued to keep the chain alive and thriving and making it the Walgreens we know today. A major blow came to the iconic drugstore in 2011. For the first time since its opening, Walgreens faced financial hardships. Costs of operating were outrageous and were out weighing the...
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...Heroin is an illicit drug classified as an opiate derived from morphine after it has been refined from the Asian poppy. Heroin is known for its strong pain relief characteristics. Heroin’s medicinal name is diamorphine (National Institute of Health, 2013). According to Foundation For A Drug-Free World (2013), The Truth About Heroin, street names for Heroin are too many to list, but the following are a few examples: Horse, ‘H’, Smack, Heavy Stuff, Brother, Chick, China White, Judas, and Mr. Brown. Heroin typically presents as a powder form ranging in colors from white, gray, yellow, or brown. It can also be refined into a thick stick tar-like substance also street named “black tar” (National Institute of Health, 2013). Heroin is an illicit drug classified as an opiate derived from morphine after it has been refined from the Asian poppy. Heroin is known for its strong pain relief characteristics. Heroin’s medicinal name is diamorphine (National Institute of Health, 2013). According to Foundation For A Drug-Free World (2013), The Truth About Heroin, street names for Heroin are too many to list, but the following are a few examples: Horse, ‘H’, Smack, Heavy Stuff, Brother, Chick, China White, Judas, and Mr. Brown. Heroin typically presents as a powder form ranging in colors from white, gray, yellow, or brown. It can also be refined into a thick stick tar-like substance also street named “black tar” (National Institute of Health, 2013). Heroin Addiction Heroin...
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...illness. They both can keep you from doing what you need to do. Question 3. Define the "holistic" approach to wellness. Answer. By focusing on healing the mind, soul, and body. The soul has the ability to develop healthy relationships to communicate with others. Question 4. Discuss three symptoms of depression. Answer: Having difficulty sleeping, you cut off people who are important to you, and you tend to have memory loss. Question 5. Why are prescription drugs as dangerous as non-prescription drugs? Answer: Since the user is familiar with the drug they can be dangerous. They can be addictive. Question 6. Compare and contrast OxyContin to alcohol. Answer: OxyContin and alcohol are both addictives and they help seize pain. Alcohol, if abused, you can get liver disease, memory loss, or have black outs. OxyContin can be crushed to be inhaled. Question 7. In your opinion, rank the top three forms of birth control. Justify you answer. Answer: The Pill, male condom, and abstinence are the top three forms of birth control in my opinion. You should always use protection if you are sexually active. I think you should as much protection as you can but make sure it is alright. Question 8. How many types of Birth control and STD protections are there? Answer: There are 16 types. Question 9. What are two types of STDs? Answer: Syphilis...
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...Index * Food * Movies * Music * Travel * Fashion * Shopping * Money * Games * ------------------------------------------------- Home * ------------------------------------------------- Puzzles * ------------------------------------------------- Fitness * ------------------------------------------------- Illusions * ------------------------------------------------- Personality * ------------------------------------------------- Paranormal * ------------------------------------------------- Linguistics * ------------------------------------------------- Software * ------------------------------------------------- Health * ------------------------------------------------- Stop Smoking * ------------------------------------------------- Cholesterol * ------------------------------------------------- Hygiene * ------------------------------------------------- CR Calculator * ------------------------------------------------- Calorie Restriction * ------------------------------------------------- Nutritional Data * ------------------------------------------------- Drug Rehab Rehabilitation from Drug Addiction Drug addiction is a growing epidemic in the United States. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported that 7.9 percent of persons 12 years of age and older used illicit drugs during the month preceding a study in 2004. Children get exposed to drugs and drug use in...
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...Vulnerable Populations in the Workplace Project Patricia Lawson NUR/440-Health Assessment and Promotion for Vulnerable Populations April 11, 2011 Sheila de Vaugh, APRN, BC CBS Evening News correspondent Ben Tracy reported on April 6, 2011 that teenage drinking and drug use has increased by 22% and that 71% of all teenagers have had a drink of alcohol before finishing high school. Most teenagers believe that smoking marijuana is not a big deal and that parents and society opposed cigarette smoking more (Tracy, 2011). Celebrities such as Michael Jackson, Brittany Murphy, and Anna Nicole Smith overshadow the issue of prescription drug abuse when every day people are experiencing the same outcomes. Emergency room (ER) nurses are the frontline in treatment of individuals suffering from addiction, withdrawal, and overdose. Still, many doctors and nurses have become hardened because of the belief that patients are drug seeking, which leads to poor management of pain and increased disparity accessing health care. In this paper I will present demographics on prescription drug abuse, issues of cultural competence and sensitivity, and strategies nurses can use to alleviate health consequences for this vulnerable group. Finally, I will conclude by presenting a brochure that ER nurses can use to identify patients at risk for substance abuse and to assess for early referral to treatment. Consequently, looking at the big picture can help health care providers...
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...Cracks in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain http://www.cio.com/article/print/16565 Print Article Close Window From: www.cio.com Cracks in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain – Susannah Patton, CIO January 15, 2006 As an undercover agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Food and Drug Administration, Aaron Graham saw firsthand how counterfeit drugs can slip into the pharmaceutical supply chain. Graham, now VP and chief security officer for Purdue Pharma, once posed as the manager of an "institutional pharmacy" selling drugs at a discount to secondary wholesalers who were then supposed to sell them to nursing homes. Soon after he began, his phone started ringing. Dozens of smaller pharmaceutical wholesale companies were calling, desperate to buy his drugs. These secondary or "gray market" wholesalers scour the country and the world for low-price drugs they can sell back to major wholesalers for a profit. In addition to trawling for institutional pharmacies, some secondary wholesalers have been known to purchase counterfeit drugs from criminal organizations in places such as China, Thailand or Colombia. Graham, who was part of a two-year FDA sting operation known as "operation gray pill," helped expose a system in which large and small wholesalers were taking advantage of multitiered pricing in the industry. Prescription drugs are sold at discounts to subsidized groups such as nursing homes and also exported at lower prices. Graham and his colleagues found...
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...Interventions Case Study Vivian Martinez BSHS/445 March 16, 2015 Alysha McCuistion Introduction Alcoholism ranks among the top three leading causes of death in the United States (Anthony, Warner, & Kessler (1997). Therefore it is not uncommon that alcohol and drug abuse will result in many types of crisis situations. The crisis that comes about as a result of alcohol or drug use are difficult to manage primarily because of the potential for concurrent medical complications. Psychoactive substance use can lead to dependence syndrome - a cluster of behavioral, cognitive, and physiological phenomena that develop after repeated substance use. Finding effective treatment for and prevention of substance abuse has been difficult. The 2012 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse estimated the number of users of illicit drugs in the United States ages 12 and over to be about 24 million. In addition, the survey estimated that 6.8% of Americans abuse or are dependent on alcohol (down from 7.7% in 2002), and 22% of Americans smoke cigarettes (down from 26 percent in 2002). The case of Sean Sean is a 19 year old sophomore who is currently on disciplinary probation for getting in a fight during freshman year and breaking the other students jaw. Sean admits to drinking and also smoking marijuana since high school and occasionally...
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...belongs to: http://suesstew.blogspot.com/2008/11/failure-of-sociological-imagination.html The topic in my social problems class today was drug abuse. We looked at the data, and tracked the trends, outlined the extent of the problem. Then we turned to the question of "why?" -- why so much more drug abuse in our region than in the past. [We live in the epicenter of the Oxycontin phenomenon.] We looked at the issues of the availability of drugs, of the economic and social conditions, of the cultural attitudes encouraged by the media, the pharmaceutical industry, and the medical profession, that pills are a solution to most of life's problems (sexual problems - take Viagra, anxious in social situations - take Paxil, etc.). One of the students in the class, Mary*, has worked on several local media projects and films about drug abuse in this region, and as a result has talked to a lot of people who have become entangled in abuse. Mary pointed out that the reason given by most of the people that she talked to was that they couldn't cope with the pressures and problems of their lives and took drugs to relieve the pressure, to be distracted, to forget about things for a while. Mary noted that this reason made her mad and disgusted. She didn't think it was a valid reason; that people were just weak and that should just learn to deal with things as she did. The other students in the class offered their agreement with Mary. They too viewed drug abuse as weakness and moral failing...
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...The active ingredient in marijuana are known as Cannabinoids and they have been proven to help ease pain (Leland).Dr Seddon R. Savage a pain specialist and president of the American Pain Society noted that “... that there was a considerable range of opinions about marijuana use among. pain specialists, and that many favored it”(Marijuana, Once Divisive, Brings Some Families Closer )this quote conveys that marijuana is favored among pain specialists . marijuana is also favored over other prescription drugs such as oxycontin as per the text “before trying marijuana alex's father took oxycontin a narcotic which he said made him “feel like a zombie” ,he also took antidepressants to relieve the mood disorder he associated with oxycontin marijuana has helped him cut down on the painkillers he said “.(Marijuana, Once Divisive, Brings Some Families Closer...
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