70 Search Results for Opioid Epidemic in United States
The Benefits and Dangers of Hydrocodone
Today, the United States is suffering from a veritable epidemic of prescription drug abuse, including both legitimate and illicit uses of these otherwise legal drugs including most especially the analgesic hydr Continue Reading...
AbstractAim: To establish methodologies that could be employed in order to prevent the abuse of drugs amongst the youth in Hong Kong.Methods: This is a critical literature review.Results: The main themes uncovered are injected drugs usage, risks of u Continue Reading...
Drug Abuse in Long Island, New York
With more than seven and a half million residents, Long Island, New York is a major center of commerce and education, but like many other densely populated large urban centers, this city also has a significant dru Continue Reading...
The Truth about the Undeniable Hypocrisy of the FDASection 4: Unknown Variables of the FDAs Acceptance ProcessesThe FDAs food and drugs acceptance process includes the risk of unknown variables affecting outcomes (Cooper & Golec, 2019; Haffajee & Mel Continue Reading...
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The USS Cole Bombing in October 2000 was a prelude to the intense focus on the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) that the FBI took up in earnest one year later in the wake of and in response to 9/11. With the killing of severa Continue Reading...
Offered under the same roof are "consultative, diagnostic, and treatment services" which are stated to be provided "by board-certified practitioners in the fields of pulmonary medicine, otolarngology, family medicine and more." (2006)
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Interest Group in HealthcareIn the article by Boggs (2006) on the role that Big Pharmathe pharmaceutical industryplays in serving as an interest group in healthcare, the author reviews several books on the subject and concludes that this interest gro Continue Reading...
Overmedicating in the Military: A Case Study into How Holistic Care and Preventive Practices Can Address the Problem of Substance Abuse among Overmedicated Troops
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This case study examines the problem of overmedication in the military. It dis Continue Reading...
Impact of Drug Abuse on School Children Aged 10 To 18 in Developed Countries (U.S., Canada, France, England, Germany, Italy, Russia, Australia, Japan and China): Narrative Literature Review
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The problem addressed in this literature review Continue Reading...
Legislative Letter
Jason M. Lewis, Senator
Chair of the Joint Committee on Public Health
State House
Tel [HIDDEN]
Dear Senator Lewis,
A public health emergency was declared by Governor Deval Patrick on March 27, 2014, due to the dramatic rise i Continue Reading...
Challenges Faced in Preparing for the Debate
Four challenges I faced in preparing for the debate were: 1) understanding the logic of my own argument—i.e., identifying the premise, assuring myself of its validity, and constructing my argument so Continue Reading...
RESPONSEResponseVanAttaVanAtta opted to focus on Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) as a response to battle opioid epidemic. As highlighted by my colleague, four programs on CARA were developed but have not been implemented fully. Accord Continue Reading...
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Race has always been a cultural factor in the U.S. and it is certainly a factor in today’s criminal justice system. James (2018:30) has shown that current “research on police officers has found that they tend to associate Afr Continue Reading...
Inequality of Socioeconomics with Regards to Access to Health Care
This topic was selected because I am pursuing a degree in health care administration/nursing and I want to show how inequality of access to health care is determined by one’s so Continue Reading...
Female Substance Abusers and Addicts
Heroin is a highly addictive substance which is characterized by a rush of biophysiological symptoms such as a rush or feeling of euphoria, heaviness in one's extremities and a certain element of dry mouth (rehab Continue Reading...
THE TRUTH The Truth about the Undeniable Hypocrisy of the FDAHow can one trust the daily supplement, hormone replacement, or pharmaceutical intervention that could be ingested with the political or pharmaceutical agenda? There is a need for the Food Continue Reading...
Health Advertising
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Direct to consumer marketing for healthcare products is a controversial subject because of the fact that it brings together two very different worlds—the free market capitalist world and the health care world&mda Continue Reading...
Strategic Plan Evaluation of the City of Scottsdale, ArizonaToday, the quarter million residents of Scottsdale, Arizona, enjoy a high quality of life due in large part to the dedicated efforts of its law enforcement authorities. The purpose of this p Continue Reading...
Discussion: Medicine1Prayer, prescriptions, and pastoral care can all be useful tools in providing quality care. However, as Safer (2019) points out, overprescribing is a problem in health care. The pharmaceutical industry benefits from increased pre Continue Reading...
With Donald Trump in power, it is easy to be pessimistic about the future of America. Mass shootings and weapons proliferation, terrorism at home and abroad, opioid epidemics, and anti-intellectualism threaten to undo centuries of progress. Selling o Continue Reading...
Drug Addiction: A Social Problem
DRUG ADDICTION
The drug addiction has radically increased throughout the world over the past few years. This research study aims at analyzing the problem of drug addiction, its individual and social implications and Continue Reading...
Standardization and Priorities of Healthcare Organizations
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As Leotsakos et al. (2014) note, standardization of patient safety in healthcare organizations has not proceeded with a great deal of progress in recent years though monumental s Continue Reading...
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As rising health care costs continue to pose problems for stakeholders in the health care industry, the question of just how to solve this dilemma remains an elusive one. The trouble is that it is not just a question of cost—but al Continue Reading...
Institutional Racism
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While it is almost established that the discussions on race in the contemporary United States center around a dominant ideological framework of the notion of color blindness, it is in the consciousness o Continue Reading...
The Right to Due Process and Privacy in Times of Coronavirus
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One of the major problems in the US and the wider world is the dissemination of news or information that is accepted uncritically as gospel truth because it comes from a truste Continue Reading...
The High Incarceration Rate: A Significant Issue Faced by the Criminal Justice System
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This paper examines the problem of the high rate of incarceration in America. This is a major challenge for the criminal justice system, as many people, fa Continue Reading...
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This paper looks at the public policy of R2P and humanitarian intervention abroad, which serves as a major drain on American resources and benefits a foreign country more than it does the U.S. The money spent on these wars waged under the ba Continue Reading...
This allows the client to place their level of behavior on the continuum and assess the levels of risk associated with their behaviors. The continuum also allows the client to assess the ways in which their behaviors over time, by examining the ways Continue Reading...
Marijuana is one of the most discussed drugs in the world because of arguments based on its benefits and perceived detrimental effects. Part of the reason for the arguments is that marijuana is still classified federally as a Schedule 1 narcotic, mea Continue Reading...
Eating Disorders
How the Perception of Beauty Influences Eating Disorders
With everything changing in this society, the aspect of beauty especially when it comes to women has kept changing, sometimes desperately to the extent of individuals adoptin Continue Reading...