Many people choose Antidepressant medication as a treatment because that is the first thing their doctors suggest. Antidepressant medication may relieve some of your depression symptoms, but it also comes with significant side effects and dangers. What’s more, recent studies have raised questions about their effectiveness. Learning the facts about antidepressants can help you make an educated decision about what’s right for you. Most mental health experts agree that when depression is severe, medication can be helpful, even life saving.
Chris Clavell Writing Studies Geoff Bender Thefreedictionary.com defines prescription drugs as a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist (“Prescription”). Prescription drugs are usually stronger than over-the-counter (OTC) drugs and have a better chance of curing certain conditions than OTCs. The instructions given by doctors are to be followed strictly or side-effects may occur. But what happens when patients only seek the help of drugs for the narcotic side-effects? The addiction for “prescription” drugs is as strong as classic street drugs such as heroin or cocaine.
For many, OxyContin showed an increased level of activity and drastic decline of pain. Others have done poorly. OxyContin is a narcotic with effects similar to morphine. As with any narcotic, the body tends to build a tolerance leading to physical dependency (Feinburg 2-3). However, Purdue Pharma still denies OxyContin to be addictive.
Moreover, it is postulated within the literature that without medication, consumers will endure deterioration of their mental illness and these deteriorations may become more difficult to treat (Drach-Zahavy & Pud, 2010; Happell, Manias & Roper, 2004; Lavelle & Tusaie, 2011). Thus, it is imperative that consumers receive the correct medication. However, in current practice errors still occur. Medication errors are associated with significant rates of mental health issues and it is this population that may be particularly susceptible to medication errors due to various factors (Lavelle & Tusaie, 2011; Maidment & Parmentier, 2009; Ito & Yamasumi, 2003). This paper will explore factors that contribute to medication errors and their effects on mental health nurses.
College students are much more likely to engage in binge drinking than non-college students. Annual drinking rates have declined only slightly in the past decade, remaining at or above eighty percent. The rates of binge drinking have barely budged in fact; it has been at the same rate for the past decade, which is around forty-four percent. During the same time, reports of frequent binge drinking increased slightly more so for female college students (from 17.1 percent to 20.9 percent) than for male students (from 22.4 percent to 25.2 percent). Frequent binge drinkers account for 68 percent of the alcohol consumed on college campuses, although they make up only
Topic: Addiction Thesis Statement: Understanding drug addiction and proper treatments for individuals who become addicted to drugs Argument 1 Are Doctor's responsible for drug addiction? Drug addiction and abuse is a very hard addiction to break. Alot of individuals who became addicts said their addiction began do to an injury sustained and a doctor prescribing opiates. Alot of doctor's don't really look at all the possibilities of a injury and start prescribing painkillers and just continue to refill the medication making the individual become an addict. "Doctors must be sure they're focused on the whole patient and not just the symptoms when prescribing opioids, or any medication for that matter."
Due to this widespread phenomenon of binge drinking, American college students spend an average of over 5.5 billion dollars a year on alcohol. That is more than they spend on soft drinks, tea, milk, juice, coffee, and all their schoolbooks combined (Kimmel). As of right now we do not have a cure for alcoholism, but there are many ways to treat this disease such as therapy (e.g. Alcoholics Anonymous) and medications to help with dependency (e.g. Antabuse, Depade, and ReVia) (Anderson).
A few drug specialists are declining to apportion morning-after pills on the grounds that it is against their convictions. Envision yourself in the position of requiring this pharmaceutical. Might as well the convictions of the drug specialist exceed your rights as the patient? For me, the response might be a resonating no. As per The Code of Ethics for Pharmacists ("Pharmacist.com," 1994), received by the enrollment of the American Pharmacists Association October 27, 1994, "Drug specialists are health experts who support people in making the best utilization of prescriptions.
Our Role, as Health Care Providers, in the Ever Increasing Drug Addiction Problem Donna Riddle Excelsior College Abstract Prescription drug abuse has become a problem of epic proportions in the United States and around the world. The largest types of drugs involved are opioid pain medications and narcotics. Prescription drug abuse rates nearly equal to abuse of illegal drugs. One of the major contributing factors for this is the easier availability in getting prescription drugs. It has become common practice to dispense prescription narcotics to treat reports of pain.
Drug Abuse From my research it is apparent that an estimated 22.2million children of the age of 12 and over have an addiction of some sort. Out of the 22.2million children or young adults 2.8million were classed as to having a dependence of both alcohol an illicit drugs, 14.9million were classed as to having a dependence of alcohol but not illicit drugs. That is a total of 17.7million children or young adults that have an addiction or abuse of alcohol and illicit drugs. The yearly number of people that have a dependence of some sort in 2012 was very similar to the numbers in 2002, there was 21.6 million in the year of 2003, 22.5million in 2004, 22.2 million in 2005, 22.7 million in 2006, and 22.4 million in 2010. This was higher than the overall number in 2011 of 20.6 million.