Essays on Painkiller

(Author Name) (Course Name/Number) The video provided by Snag Films, Drugged: High on Heroin, was informative to say the least. With the rising prevalence of news reports related to the opioid epidemic around the country and the rising number of people dying from prescription medication every day, the introduction was relative and eye-opening. Heroin, an opioid painkiller, is largely responsible for the “1 in 10 Americans” who “suffer from substance abuse” and has damaging mentally and physical effects on the lives of people and their immediate family, but it also has a massive sociological impact. A drug that is ...

Suboxone is a combination drug, administered sublingually, of buprenorphine HCL and naloxone HCl dehydrate in a ratio of 4:1, used for the treatment of opioid addiction, for example in heroin addicts and narcotic painkiller abuse, in higher doses; and in lower doses is used for the treatment of acute and chronic pain (FDA, 2010). Buprenorphine is a μ receptor partial agonist and a κ receptor antagonist; naloxone is an opioid receptor antagonist, which has a higher affinity for μ receptors then full agonists do and can thus displace the full agonist from the receptor reversing the effects of opiate overdose, such as respiratory and ...

Abstract

The research paper discusses the origin and nature of methadone, including the historical aspect of its development and further commercial and scientific use. The paper also describes the pharmacology of methadone, including the route of administration of the drug, its metabolism and its mechanism of action. Next section of the paper explains the experience in medical use of methadone, as it`s a great alternative to the painkillers based on the opiates, it plays a major role in the therapy of maintaining and replacement and treating the withdrawals syndromes. The positive effects on the pregnant patients are also described here with a ...

The Problem with Drug Abuse

Drug Abuse, the problem with Drug Abuse is that everyone is doing it and not having or fostering the will power to stop. This is made painfully evident by all of the people who are living on the street, panhandling, begging for money on the street corner, sacrificing parts or all of their bodies to get drugs for abuse later on. Some have even resorted to a form of prostitution so they can feed their habit without any regard for anyone but themselves, the sad part is that some of these people are working good jobs and doing very well ...

Introduction

I think that marijuana has moral, behavioral and health effects in the society. People smoke it for recreational purposes and behave weirdly towards others. I have heard of cases where some members of the society have become abnormal from too much marijuana smoking. It is a drug that affects an individual’s senses and how they behave and relate to others in the society. To this extent, I do not approve of the legalization of the drug. I have also read of the other cases of medical effects such as the sterility in sperm cells, because of the deformity it ...

Introduction

The fact is all individuals are equally biased. Individuals cannot help it. They can only distinguish this innate bias and be able to counter against the same. The basis of economics provides that derivation or results and decision making needs to be supported by appropriate reason. It is dependent upon an exact consideration of something's value versus its expenses. However, life proves it to be totally wrong. Behavioral Economics shows that individuals are effectively affected by wrong information and different types of irrationality. Besides, the first year students are regularly unconscious of a drastic number of sources that impact their ...

- Most frighteningly, because many of these painkillers cause slow breathing and because teens have a tendency to mix painkillers, they can even cause teens to die. - Of course the primary effect painkillers have on teens is to make pain subside. - The lucid effect painkillers provide also encourages teens to use them recreationally. - Over half of teens using painkillers do not actually need them, but only use them as a source to get high. - Continuous use of painkillers to get high may be thought to be harmless by some but it is not. ...

Over the recent years, the number of patients having physical therapy for pain management has drastically increased. Physical therapy involves physical exercises such as stretching and a range of motion exercises aimed at maintaining flexibility, strength, and mobility. Physical therapy embraces hot and cold therapy to mitigate pain in body parts. Chronic pain among people is one of the major illnesses, which have presented itself people around the world. People have, over the years, been using drugs in mitigating chronic pains. There has been a persistent use of prescribed medicines to manage pain. Improvement in technology and medical skills have significantly ...

Over the recent years, the number of patients having physical therapy for pain management has drastically increased. Physical therapy involves physical exercises such as stretching and a range of motion exercises aimed at maintaining flexibility, strength, and mobility. Physical therapy embraces hot and cold therapy to mitigate pain in body parts. Chronic pain among people is one of the major ailments which have presented itself people around the world. People have, over the years, been using drugs in mitigating chronic pains. There has been a persistent use of prescribed medicines to manage pain. Improvement in technology and medical skills have significantly ...

Introduction

In the past several decades, marijuana has been linked to various medicinal uses. This has attracted a lot of attention to the herb which has also been linked to adverse harmful elements. Marijuana contains an active ingredient that is classified in the cannabinoids class of compounds. These compounds have been used severally in treatment of insomnia, induced nausea as well as appetite loss linked to AIDS therapy. Also, cannabinoids have been linked to the treatment of motor disturbances among patients suffering multiple sclerosis. Although, advanced research on biochemical and physiological effects of marijuana have been examined through excellent scientific research, ...

Abstract

Collaborative efforts to solving problems in multidisciplinary approach is a process that is accompanied with multiple problems that need to be critically reviewed so that a conclusive decision that is long lasting can be arrived at. In the case of Riverbed city home care planning for the cancer patient, several conflicting issues were arrived at that involves both the involved multidisciplinary professionals as well as the family members. In this case, the involved parties in the home care plan have to discuss the presented issues and look for several alternative solutions for each question where a single lasting solution for each of ...

Human beings have freedom of choice

The question of freedom of human beings is perhaps one of the most contentious questions that mankind is currently debating on. Various postulations and reasoning have been put forward by different people; ideally what a person puts forward relating to this issue is by all means one’s personal opinion that cannot be generalized to all humans. This holds perhaps because we are constantly presented with different choices at different times and the our ability and mechanisms of making choices are overly different hence there is no way two different people can make the same choice for exactly the same ...