lead to the overprescribing of painkillers. Athletes will become dependent on these drugs for relief which will lead to addiction. When athletes take these painkillers‚ the drugs are affecting their body in certain ways. Use of painkillers by athletes of all levels needs to be more closely monitored and regulated. Some physicians are quick to prescribe pain medication to athletes for most types of pain‚
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Prescription Painkillers The article by the Los Angeles Times‚ Legal Drugs‚ Deadly Outcomes‚ reports on how prescription painkillers have evolved. For many years prescription painkillers were limited to cancer patients and others with terminal illnesses. The idea was that the risk of addiction outweighed the benefit of the painkiller to patients whose illness was not life-threatening. As society has evolved and physicians continued to argue that it’s inhuman not to prescribe painkillers to patients
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In You Are a Contract Painkiller (1997‚ p. 111)‚ author Maureen Littlejohn makes extensive use of personification to describe the functioning of Aspirin in our body‚ its various properties to fight pain‚ and its evolution over the years. Littlejohn describes how Aspirin claimed celebrity status as one of the world’s most popular‚ inexpensive painkillers by relieving headaches‚ sprains‚ blows‚ burns‚ swelling and fever. Furthermore‚ she added that Aspirin could also be used to reduce the risk of stroke
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Throughout the country huge masses of people suffer with the addiction to prescription painkillers. “The number of these deaths reached a new peak in 2014 to 47‚055 people‚ or the equivalent of about 125 Americans every day. (Park)” These numbers will only continue to rise as the abuse of opioids continues on. The abuse of opioids have ravished through the nation causing extreme pain and heartache. The opioid epidemic can be controlled and stopped by learning the drugs affects‚ the consequences of
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beginnings of an injury. What the athlete does not know about the painkillers could affect him later down the road‚ especially if he upholds his mentality of constantly taking aspirin whenever he senses an injury in the making. Painkillers are drugs that simply mask the pain many people suffer from on a daily basis. Globally‚ humans are using painkillers to cope with pains ranging from headaches to arthritis inflammation. Although painkillers offer many benefits‚ society has become too dependent on these
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Painkillers: A Growing Epidemic I visit my grandmother every month at her house. We relive all of the happy moments we shared when I was growing up. On my latest visit‚ she did not want to talk about the good times we shared‚ and seemed almost annoyed I was there at all. After searching around her house‚ I noticed an empty bottle of prescription painkillers. I remembered her telling me the last time I talked to her that she was starting to take a new prescription pain medication‚ but that
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the lives of millions of people. Prescribed painkillers have become a health epidemic that many people are unaware of. It is no longer unusual to see someone dying or struggling with a painkiller addiction because it has rapidly increased in the last few years. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention‚ “91 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose” (2016). In order to respond to this crisis‚ we must ask‚ who’s at fault? Painkiller addiction continues to escalate because doctors
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Jane Burke said that the main focus of her novel‚ The Story of Tom Brennan was on Tom’s journey out of the darkness which engulfed him after the tragic road accident. After Daniel Brennan crashed his blue ford falcon into a tree‚ killing two and injuring another‚ Tom’s world spun into a darkness he couldn’t explain. The feelings of rage and desperation or normal life consumed him. The Story of Tom Brennan is all about dark and light‚ the things that turn us dark and the things that can turn us back
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The United States has had an excessive increase in the number of individuals who have abused the prescription that is being prescribed by providers. The article "There is a prescription painkiller abuse Epidemic” touches the topic of the drug effects after abusing these dangerous narcotics. It also provides excellent examples of individuals who depend on these medicines and have passed away from them. Thomas notes‚ when persons take these drugs in excess quantities they end up addictive medicines
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Prescription Painkillers vs. Medical Marijuana Enough prescription painkillers were prescribed in 2010 alone to medicate every American adult around-the-clock for an entire month. The United States of America is also responsible for more than 80% of the worlds prescription painkiller use. Prescription painkillers and medical marijuana are both forms of pain treatment and today I’ll be talking about the differences between the two of them when it comes to effectiveness‚ ability to regulate‚ and
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