Substance Abuse Substance abuse is a “major public health problem” (Nugent & Jones, pg. 228). Alcohol, specifically “is one of the most abused substances in America” (Nugent & Jones, pg. 228). People can also become addicted to “marijuana and other psychoactive substances” (Nugent & Jones, pg. 228). When drugs are abused it can result in a person becoming impaired and dependent” (Nugent & Jones, pg. 228). People who are dependent are at a “higher risk for violence, suicide, mental illness and
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Addiction relates to many things such as alcohol food and most importantly drug such as the legal and illegal narcotics. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse and more specifically Nora Volkow’s blog “because of drug use, a person’s brain is no longer able to produce something needed for our functioning and that healthy people take for granted, free will.”( Nora’s blog)This states that addiction is something that people choose on their own. No one is pointing a gun at their head and are
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In the past several years heroin has killed a record number of people in Long Island. The statistic is frightening heroin use has exploded in Long Island. The number of heroin users and heroin-related deaths has been steadily rising over the past few years. And the most rapid growth is among those under age 21. Four out of five new heroin users said their addictions started from prescription pain medication, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, a federal agency
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Drugs are the that can hurt , kill and do permanent damage that can mess up people's lives and families, it can also take people's lives like overdose. some time when people do drugs they get addicted and won’t stop and they lose everything to drug to where they would living on the streets and they try different thing to get money just so they can get drugs. different type of drugs have different effects most of them can kill you and most can put you in the hospital for a long time or some can make
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Have you ever looked at our world and thought, we rely so much on health care and antibiotics like aspirin, that it’s like were addicted to it? Well in some aspects of that statement it’s true. Our “addiction” is becoming a global crisis. If we don’t slow down on the drugs it can and most likely will cause an unstoppable virus. The worst part? It’s already happening! So slow down a minute. How in the world did this happen? Well It was a gradual happening it didn’t happen overnight. Let me use an
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Destini Allen Mrs. Williams English 101 24 October 2017 The Power of Addiction According to gateway foundation addiction has had a horrible effect on West Virginia over the last few years which has been the cause of overdose, injuries, health problems, effects on the brain, behavioral problems, birth defects, and so much more. Addiction not only effects the individual with the problem but also the family and those who are associated with them. Substance abuse and addiction are fully treatable. There
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The opioid epidemic is one that is plaguing America right now. Many people, with many different stories, have gone through or been effected by this epidemic. Sue was a person affected by this epidemic. She had been in a work accident and had been prescribed pain pills. Soon she couldn’t stop taking them, even when her injury should’ve been healed. One day she heard her daughter say she looked old, and she realized she addicted. She decided to give it up, she struggled a bit but finally, she was able
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Commission have joined other groups in the state in filing a lawsuit against opioid manufacturers and distributors acusing them of illegally marketing and distributing opioids that led to the states epidemic. Attorney Stephen Skinner, of Skinner Law Firm in Charles Town, filed the lawsuits on behalf of the counties, according to a press release from his office. In May, the Berkeley County Council voted 3-2 to engage in the opioid litigation aimed at pharmaceutical drug distributors that are accuesd of
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reality that many people are using opioids, a painkiller, in an improper way. The picture depicts a vial of Opioids containing the lives of so many people that are falling into the mouth of Death.This political cartoon sends us a message. The convenience and immediate effects of Opioids makes people keep using it without doctor's prescription. This causes dangerous side effects and even death for the users. Convenience is one of the reasons that many people use opioids. Not only me but everyone is living
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Bup Equivalent Dose | Subutex | Suboxone Film | Buprenorphine/naloxone tabs | Zubsolv | Bunavail | 2 mg | 2 mg | 2 mg / 0.5 mg | 2 mg / 0.5 mg | 1.4 mg / 0.36 mg | ½ of 2.1 mg / 0.3 mg | 4 mg | ½ of 8 mg | 4 mg / 1 mg | ½ of 8 mg / 2 mg | ½ of 5.7 mg / 1.4 mg | 2.1 mg / 0.3 mg | 8 mg | 8 mg | 8 mg / 2 mg | 8 mg / 2 mg | 5.7 mg / 1.4 mg | 4.2 mg / 0.7 mg | 12 mg | 1 ½ of 8 mg | 12 mg / 3 mg | 1 ½ of 8 mg / 2 mg | 5.7 mg / 1.4 mg+2 of 1.4 mg / 0.36 mg | 6.3 mg / 1 mg | 16 mg | 8 mg BID |
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