Opioid Abuse Case Study

Discerning the atrocious epidemic that we as Americans are facing from opioid abuse began from pain management problems that is subjective to individual patients; the patient’s sensation is what we must believe and respect. Additionally, drug companies' drug representatives have convinced doctors that opiates such as Vicodin, OxyContin are not addictive drugs. They are, also, advertising narcotics as the drug of choice for doctors to offer their patients to help with their pain symptoms. Back in the 1960’s according to Dreamland by Quinones, doctors try to refrain from giving narcotic pain medications to patients because they know how addictive these drug can be. It is better for patients to abstain from those medications because patients can
By cutting the supplies to patients we are trying to help patients with their addiction on our end. For example, working in CVS pharmacy we do not fill prescriptions of opiates if it's more than twelve tablets. It is an unwritten rule all workers understand. We can also look at the patient profile and see if they are hooked on pain medications. We politely decline to fill their prescription. This is a way to cut the supply of the opiate medications to patients. It is only the pharmacist judgement that can determine if the patient needs the
I n Juxtaposing, Nigeria, a small town where I grew up, there is a saying that states it takes a village or community to raise a child. Children go to school normal hours from eight am till two pm in the afternoon. Parents work nine to five jobs and on weekends nobody works. The system creates time for parents and children to interact and most teenagers are raised by the community. Another parent can discipline a child if they see the child indulging in wrongdoing. In comparison with America, most middle class parents work all the time. Another adult cannot discipline another person child and we all live in isolation. Everyone is minding their own business. This creates room for vulnerable individuals to indulge in illicit activities. These activities impact pharmacy because some pharmacies will keep dispensing these medications. Pain is very subjective, therefore there are no means to measure an individual pain level. I, also, have witnessed discrepancies in different communities. The affluent addicts demand their narcotic medications. While in the impoverished neighborhood, the pharmacist can reject a patient from getting those kinds of