Doctors advise pregnant woman who are using drugs to substitute their drug of choice with methadone treatment because the baby can suffer from severe withdrawal symptoms in the womb. Doctors will closely examine the mother and baby. It is much better for the soon to be mother to be on methadone rather than any other drug because it is less stress on the baby. Some states offer residential treatment‚ homes for the homeless in severe cases. One specific program offers sterilization for men and women
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Shelbey Safford HSMV 1160 Module 6 assignment 4 April 17‚ 2011 4. Methadone maintenance is a controversial treatment model for heroin and other narcotic addiction. Write a one page paper either for or against methadone maintenance. Be able to justify your position based upon textbook material‚ lecture notes‚ and outside research. When it comes to heroin‚ I am for complete abstinence. Methadone is a medication admitted to a person to minimize the discomfort of heroin withdrawal symptoms
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that using the well-known drug methadone‚ helps fight the existing addiction- take drugs to stop taking drugs? When someone is fighting an addiction‚ one may decide to try and take action to cure their addiction by seeking help. Seeking help may consist of going through a treatment process of taking the well-known drug Methadone. This drug is known to help people fight their addiction to pain pills‚ heroin‚ crack-cocaine‚ and many others‚ or does it? The Methadone treatment is also known to start
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Beth will benefit from receiving Methadone treatment in addition to therapy. Methadone as mentioned above is design specially for opiates addiction. The methadone will work with Beth to reduce her drug use. Once this happens‚ Beth will need individual‚ family and couples therapy to assist her improve every aspect of her life. My goal as her therapist is to focus on her parent’s divorced and sexual abuse and how they affected her during the years. As the therapist‚ I want to explore ways in which
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Heroin Addiction & Methadone Maintenance Deborah Booth Psychology 305 – DO4 Liberty University Heroin Addiction & Methadone Maintenance Diacetylmorphine‚ aka: heroin‚ smack‚ horse‚ black tar‚ china white‚ and H‚ the slang names are as numerous as the places you can score this highly addictive narcotic. Heroin‚ a derivative of morphine‚ via opium‚ which comes from the resin of the Papaver somniferum plant has been in use for nearly 3500 years (Doweiko‚2012‚ p.137). To
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Methadone Maintenance Treatment versus Rapid Opioid Detoxification Amber Dawn Phillips University of Phoenix The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that close to three million people in Europe and the US are addicted to some type of opiate‚ and in the US alone‚ over two million people are addicted to prescription opiates‚ and opiates make up 83 percent of admissions
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A Critique of the Research Article: Methadone/Buprenorphine and Better Maternal/ Perinatal Outcomes: A Meta-analysis Winston-Salem State University A Critique of the Research Article: Methadone/Buprenorphine and Better Maternal/ Perinatal Outcomes: A Meta-analysis Abstract The purpose of this research article is to discuss lower risk drugs such as Methadone and Buprenorphine given to Heroin addicted pregnant patients to create better neonatal and maternal outcomes. This research articles
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Research and review of articles on Suboxone and Suburex‚ agonist and antagonist opioid replacement drugs. The purpose of this paper is to explore the pros and cons of Suboxone and Suburex‚ two treatments for heroin dependence‚ which are both agonists and antagonists for opioids. The chosen articles‚ Ling‚Walter‚ et al.’s‚ “a decade of research by the National Drug Abuse treatment clinical trials network”‚ Bell‚ James‚ et al.’s “a pilot study of bunprenorphine-naxolone
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medication-assisted treatment with methadone‚ medication-assisted treatment with buprenorphine‚ or Rehabilitation. Naltrexone is available in two formulations: a 50 mg daily oral tablet (Revia®‚ others) and a 380 mg extended-release once-monthly intramuscular injection (Vivitrol®). Unlike the tablet‚ which can be easily self-discontinued‚ the intramuscular injection is more reliable because it guarantees protection for a full month.
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the most used include Methadone and Buprenorphine‚ both of which specifically treat heroin and opioid addiction (T). The SAMHSA website goes into more detail specifically about what Methadone does. SAMHSA is works within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. They say that Methadone is taken orally and the drug causes the user to experience less of a “high”‚ while also preventing
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