Many companies use urine test because it is cheap and there are many lab available to do them. One problem is there is the possibility of lab error. If anyone deviates from the chain of custody, the drug test is discarded as a tainted specimen. Urine tests cannot determine when a drug was used they can only detect the “metabolites,” or inactive leftover traces of previously ingested substances (ACLU, 2011). In other words if you do drugs on the weekend and are tested in the middle of the week you can test positive.
Establishing an open communication will help to improve nurse-patient relationship. Be sure not to use any medical terminologies that the patient and family may not understand. The main focus of the patient’s education should include the importance of taking prescribed medications on time and the diet restrictions. Mr. P. should be instructed to take his medications on time even if he feels better. Using a weekly pill box will help to avoid confusion.
The lock-in program would help lower the amount of people abusing prescription medication. The lock-in program would also ease the minds of physicians and pharmacists who are fighting a constant battle of keeping track of patients on controlled medications. Even though Americans will pay taxes on Medicaid regardless, many people would feel more at ease knowing their money wasn’t going toward funding the habits of drug abusers. Any patient that seeks assistance from Medicaid should be entered into the lock-in program to help lower the amount of controlled substance abuse, to ease the minds of doctors and pharmacists, and to ensure American tax dollars are spent more
Society in our world is used to seeing people take legal drugs (like cigarettes or alcohol) because they are allowed to be taken in public places. Illegal drugs, on the other hand, make you an outsider of society (except to drug junkies, who will see you as their best friend).The people in the New World get soma for free because it is, as already mentioned, all ordered and offered by the government. In comparison to that you have to pay for drugs in our world, and most of them have expensive prices that are only affordable to people with enough money. Legal drugs, however, aren’t as expensive as the illegal ones. This has the consequence that many people have to commit crimes and go into prostitution to buy the drugs they depend on.
The government has decided that addiction to these types of harmless drugs is okay, and then provides us with safe ways to access and ingest them. Could it be that the moment you turn to an illegal drug, you forfeit any chance of safety that the government could offer to you? Illegal drug use surrounds us every day, in fact, substance abuse is not a problem that will go away by banishing users to the streets; such attitudes only exacerbate this ever so common, serious issue. Critics argue that safe injection sites condone a criminal act, whereas, others argue that it’s better to focus on enabling addicts to practice the behavior more safely. While we must appreciate the moral perspectives some attempt to embody, good public policy must be measured by its effectiveness and ability to actually achieve the goals it is designed to respond to.
Is it reasonable to provide an intravenous drug user with sterile needles in exchange for their dirty needles? Does it promote IV drug usage or does it in fact save lives? These are the questions that people have been asking for years and years. The needle exchange program (N.E.P) has been a litigious topic of discussion among many people and for good reason. The answer to whether or not to give these drug users a sterile needle is simple: these people deserve to be supplied with clean needles.
Gun control supporters can count some victories during the past year, including the gun-safety regulations in Massachusetts and the defeat of concealed weapons bill in several states. In all, gun control laws being stricter will gain control over gun violence and decrease the death rate over all. Both articles were well written and had chalk full of statistics and links to other sites to seek more information. They were able to convince me that fire arms should not be restricted, and concealed weapons help to lower crime. To not have possession of a gun in your home leaves you to feel helpless, because of this us civilians would no longer be able to
However, to a large extend the figures in the two sources do show that prohibition was not successful. The public were producing more and more alcohol as a result of the restrictions placed on them. Prohibition went against the previously accepted way of life and restricting this only helped to push the production and drinking of alcohol underground. People became very clever at finding ways to obtain recipes for producing their own alcohol and the 25% increase in illegal stills seized by the government proves this. If the police were doing their job properly, the figures should be decreasing not increasing.
Public Agenda posted a statistical graph that shows 68 percent of the public agrees with the testing. 27 percent is against it and five percent are not sure how they feel. As a citizen who is on welfare I would gladly do a drug test if it meant that I wouldn’t have food or clothes for my child. This program gives a person the chance to get their life back on track and a new start. It is a win/win all the way around because, It will lower the amount of people on welfare and increase the amount of people that can be personally responsible for themselves by holding a job and being drug
There are free facilities that will hand out free birth control to students, why not antidepressants? This is only as long as they have had a medical evaluation advising them to be on the medication. There also needs to be more education on effects of drugs and alcohol associated with youth suicide. Completed suicide often happens when a child is under the influence (Doey & Steele, 2007). One way to keep illegal drugs and alcohol out of the hands of our youth would be to increase the legal drinking age and add to the severity of the punishment for drinking