Rader 1 Recreational drug usage consists of abusing psychoactive drugs for reason other then medical‚ work‚ or spiritual cause. These drugs can range from simple coffee down to heroin. These drugs are not healthy for the body‚ and have caused many deaths. HIV can be caused by non injected drugs. A United States poll‚ testifies that nearly two hundred million people use drugs at least once a year. This is truly what is wrong with our soceity today. No one can truly state each cause of drug use
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Decision-making is an imperative part of nursing. In order to make a decision many factors have to be evaluated for a conclusion to be made. This process is involved in every aspect of patient care and a higher level of thinking is necessary when carried out by a nurse. Critical thinking involves examining the data‚ weighing its evidence‚ and selecting a decision based on the best rational criteria. This is important because decision-making by nurses has a direct effect on the care they deliver to
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On 11/16/17 I met Mr. Larson at the office of Dr. Quinn. Mr. Larson is alert and oriented. He is willing to work with a nurse case manager and to provide his medical history. Mr. Larson is alert and oriented. MEDICAL FACTORS On 9/1/17 Mr. Larson was at work. He is a mechanic technician. He reports he was holding a weighted object that was 40 to 50 pounds and turning a bolt at the same time. As he was pushing on the object he felt a pop in the small finger. He has been unable to bend the finger
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Adverse Event or Near Miss Analysis In the early 2000’s New Jersey implemented a Patient Safety Reporting System that promoted confidential reporting to the Department of Health of adverse events and root cause analysis with the goal of making patient safety a priority throughout the state’s hospitals (State of New Jersey Department of Health‚ 2017). Adverse events are preventable within acute care hospitals and are inclusive of medication errors‚ pressure-ulcers‚ falls‚ suicide or attempted suicide
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patient’s daily life and emotional well-being. She goes to surgery regularly‚ every 3-4 weeks to remove the painful lumps. She developed chronic pain‚ rates her pain at 8-9/10 constantly and medicate herself with high doses of Morphine tablets and Hydrocodone at home for breakthrough pain. She is totally dependent with pain medications. Talking to her one day‚ noticed that she
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(2001). Methamphetamines a growing epidemic? Connexions‚ April/May‚ 2-6. Schep LJ‚ Slaughter RJ‚ Beasley DM (August 2010). "The clinical toxicology of methamphetamine". Clinical Toxicology (Philadelphia‚ Pa.) 48 (7): 675–94. Tenayuca JM‚ Nazarian A. Hydrocodone and morphine possess similar rewarding effects and reduce ERK and CREB phosphorylation in the nucleus accumbens. Synapse. 2012 Jun 20. doi: 10.1002/syn.21577.
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made it clear that once you start abusing opiates‚ most require treatment in order to stop Opiates are a group of narcotics that contain opium or natural synthetic opium (Shoenfeld‚ 2012). Some of the commonly abused opiates include: Oxycodone‚ Hydrocodone‚ Heroin‚ Codeine‚ Morphine‚ and Methadone as well as many other pain medications. They can be crushed and snorted‚ taken orally‚ and even injected. The most restrictive legally available drugs are the opiates Methadone and Morphine (Shoenfeld‚ 2012)
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German scientists Max Bockmühl and Gustav Ehrhart first synthesized methadone in 1937. The synthetic opioid analgesic was created while they were searching for a pain reliever that would be safe to use during surgeries and had a low potential for addiction. On September 11‚ 1941‚ they filed for a patent for what they called Hoechst 10820 or Polamidon. Eli Lilly and Company brought methadone to the United Stated in 1947. They gave it the trade name Dolophine‚ which came from the German Dolphium
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The number of suicides by overdosing has risen over recent years. This is due to the availability of substances which can be used. Some common household drugs which are used in overdose suicides include opioids (which are painkillers such as hydrocodone and oxycodone)‚ benzodiazepines (which are used to treat anxiety such as Xanax and Librium)‚ sleeping pills (such as Nyquil and Benadryl)‚ and antidepressants (Norqvist 2). Many believe the use of Tylenol and Aspirin for overdosing will result
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HISTORY The first part of this chapter provides a historical survey of the pharmacologic and political influences on the use of psychoactive substances and compulsive behaviors in all civilizations. The second part presents a system for classifying these psychoactive substances along with major legislation impacting use of drugs and treatment of addictions. Throughout the last 10‚000 years‚ humans have used psychoactive drugs to alter their perception of reality for a variety of reasons. By
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