Explain the systems within your dental practice for internal and external referrals for advice‚ support or treatment. The most common referral in our practice is for a therapist for scale and polish‚ filling‚ whitening teeth‚ radiographs or for extraction of deciduous teeth. Our therapist doesn’t have direct access and patients have to be referred to her. To refer a patient to the therapist‚ appointment need to be booked and therapy prescription placed on the top of the notes in patient file with
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BECAUSE IT SAVES LIVES. Suboxone is a prescribed medication that most treatment centers and addiction specialist use for weaning their patients off opiates comfortably. It has fewer side effects‚ unlike methadone‚ which is a more dangerous drug than the opiates they were addicted to. Suboxone relieves the patient of wanting to use‚ taking away that itch one feels which often causes relapse. It also has a blocker medication (Naloxone) that keeps them from
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Introduction When I first picked up Inside Rikers by Jennifer Wynn‚ I could not help but notice a disturbing image of the book cover; it was an image of an inmate locked up in his cell; he had one hand holding the bar‚ while having the other hand out of the cell‚ with a cigarette in his hand. Then I read the Publisher Weekly’s description of the book in the cover page‚ which read‚ “a penetrating exploration of inmates’ lives in New York’s ‘vast penal colony’… unusually stirring.” Based
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By: Saina - 8R Substance Abuse - Heroin Substance abuse means abusing the power of various drugs‚ alcohol or chemicals to the point at which the user can’t stop. This can usually result in physical‚ mental and/or emotional harm to the users and others. Teenagers are more in the risk of the substance abuse as they don’t acknowledge the consequences of their actions; the reason is the biological and psychological changes during the adolescence‚ but also lots of the adults get addicted to the drugs
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addictive narcotics that he was on all the way up until he died November 10th‚ 2006 from lung cancer then went in remission and got a brain tumor. My mother also got addicted to his narcotics up until he died. She then switched from the narcotics to methadone to “come off” the opiates‚ but just became a new addiction. I see it as she got worse after my father passed away because she lost her job and she got worse with the drugs. I can see it in her eyes that she wants to change
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Australia is a drug-using society. The most common drugs used are alcohol‚ coffee‚ nicotine and various medications. Less commonly used are illegal drugs such as cannabis (marijuana)‚ ecstasy‚ heroin and amphetamines (speed). What is a drug? A drug is any substance‚ solid‚ liquid or gas‚ that brings about physical and/or psychological changes. The drugs of most concern in the community are those that affect the central nervous system. They act on the brain and can change the way a person thinks
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Contemporary Social Problem Research Paper Shaneka Ball HS5318 Scope of Human Services 106 March Street Belzoni‚ MS 39038 Telephone: 662-836-9396 Email: shaneka.ball@gmail.com Instructor: Dr. Bill Brehm Abstract Opioid is a misused prescription drug that is causes problems in today’s society by interfering with everyday life living among children and adults. As I begin to think about prescription opioids and how it is abused‚ I wanted to know more about how it is being abused among and in
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codeine‚ the two naturally occurring opiate analgesics o Semi-synthetic opiates‚ such as heroin (diacetylmorphine)‚ oxycodone‚ hydrocodone‚ and hydromorphone o Fully synthetic opioids‚ such as fentanyl‚ meperidine/pethidine‚ and methadone HEROIN- The German drug company Bayer named its new over the counter drug "Heroin" in 1895.[7] The name was derived from the German word "heroisch" (heroic) due to its perceived "heroic" effects upon a user.[7] It was chiefly developed as a morphine
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The Inaba text describes the phenomenon of "therapeutic index." Addiction to barbiturates can be critical in terms of lethality as measured by the therapeutic index. Describe how this phenomenon might lead to an accidental overdose. Why is this factor more critical with barbiturates than with other classes of depressant drugs? Barbiturates are nonselective central nervous system (CNS) depressants‚ capable of producing all degrees of depression from mild sedation and hypnosis to general anesthesia
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STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS Professor. Nelly E. Conde‚ MA Sleep and Dreams What are the different states of consciousness? What happens when we sleep‚ and what are the meaning and function of dreams? Sleep and Dreams What are the major sleep disorders‚ and how can they be treated? How much do we daydream? Consciousness Awareness of the sensations‚ thoughts‚ and feelings we experience at a given moment. Waking consciousness – we are awake and aware of our thoughts‚ emotions‚ and
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