Essays on Opiate

Opioids are the most common modern analgesics because they help patients deal with pain after surgery or during the treatment of cancer and other diseases. In contrast, opioids also cause addiction and dependence. The main problem is that opioids rapidly cause dependence, which results in destruction of a human’s health. Opioids are psychoactive drugs that improve the human condition, but it causes destruction to a human health and stimulates addicts to take part in criminal activities. Opioids were used for medical purposes in ancient practice nearly 6000 years ago. At first, opioids were considered a godsend because it ...

Poppy seeds are acquired from the opium poppy. The opium has a smooth sap or latex contains alkaloids, alluded as opium alkaloids, including the opiate specialists, codeine and morphine, that have been utilized by man for the treatment of extreme pain for many years now. Opium alkaloids are likewise subject to abuse. The alkaloids are combined, kept and metabolized in the poppy plant's latex. The latex penetrates all parts of the plant, with the exception of the seeds and is to be found specifically in the pericarp of the case. The latex of the immature cases, which is discharged ...

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The term "opiate" combines substance extracted from opium, the most important of which is morphine, codeine, papaverine, which is widely used as medicines and paramorphine - used mainly in medical industry to produce medications, as well as synthesized derivatives of morphine, which belong to the semi-synthetic opiates and among which the most famous for their narcotic properties is heroin. Substances, differ in structure from the structure of morphine but operating on a similar mechanism (through opioid receptors), are belonged to the opioids (Kuehn, 2007). A rich lexicon of slang in relation to opiates (especially heroin) reflects not only the " ...

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The high prevalence of substance use in the society has made more users to depend on opioid drugs to relieve pains and discomfort because of addiction. The problem contributes to high number of hospital visits and increasing admission rates in hospital’s acute care departments. The following paper aims at reviewing the literature on the acute pain management in chronic pain patients and opioid dependent patients. The outcome of the review plays a critical role in the field nursing practice by assisting professionals to develop strategies that help prevent adverse effects for the patient suffering from acute pain. The ...

The drug that is highlighted in this paper is opiates. Opiates come in many forms are usually prescribed as pain medication. Opiates include most prescription pain medications such as: heroin, morphine, codeine, hydrocodone, oxycodone, et al. These drugs, while good for a short time after a serious accident, surgery, or other medical condition, to control pain, are highly addictive and can become an addictive substance in an individual who is prone to addictive habits. (The Abuse of Prescription Drugs, 2009) Although opiates are one of the most addictive substances and cause thousands of deaths from self-medicating, there are not ...

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Over the past few years, there has been a growing interest among neurosurgeons on the potential for therapies that impact on diseases, over and above the movement disorders and pain. One of the biggest targets of this increasing interest has been the nucleus accumbens. It has been studied for long, as an area of the brain that mediates a variety of behaviors, including reward and satisfaction (Salgado & Kaplitt, 2015). With this in mind, the modulation of the biology of the Nucleus Accumbens through either deep brain stimulation or through biological therapies like gene therapy or the transplantation of cells ...