Andrew Costa Professor Myles HUS 211 Substance Abuse 3/12/15 Opioids Outline Intro- Opium- from the Greek word opos‚ meaning juice or sap‚ was originally chewed‚ eaten‚ or blended into various liquids and swallowed. (Inaba 4-7) It was cultivated in The Mediterranean‚ and Southwest Asia. Dating all the way back to the 206 B.C.‚ Opium was a major product traded on the Silk Road. This classification of drugs is used primarily to treat pain‚ diarrhea‚ and cough. They are known to bring on a sense
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DRUG NAME |DOSAGE |CLASSIFICATION |Mechanism of action |INDICATION |CONTRAINDICATION |Nursing Implication | |Brand name : Hemostan Fibrinon‚ Cyklokapron‚ Lysteda‚ Transamin Generic name: Tranexamic acid |500 mg. /tab ID 8x a times a day. | Anti-fibrinolytic‚ antihemorrhagic | Tranexamic acid is a synthetic derivative of the amino acid lysine. It exerts its antifibrinolytic effect through the reversible
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Diamorphine is an opioid produced over one hundred years ago by the acetylation of morphine. Diamorphine is twice as potent when compared to morphine‚ because it is a more lipophilic molecule‚ containing a partition coefficient of 280 (Suresh‚ 2013). The lipophilicity of diamorphine allows it to rapidly distribute across the blood-brain barrier‚ producing effects within seconds. Morphine cannot penetrate the blood brain barrier at that rate‚ because it contains two hydroxyl groupings within its structure
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physicians assistants who have prescribes larges dose known as opioids. Opioids are substances that act opioids receptors to produce morphine like effects most use medically relieves pain‚ that can refers as drugs derived from opium‚ including ‚ morphine itself. Over one thousand people a year in North Carolina in the las two decades died of overdose prescriptions such as oxycontin‚ percolate and others pain killers know as Opioids and to make it work these doctors are not even to be likely be
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PSY F370 Drugs and Behavior Fall 2013 November 9‚ 2013 Opioid Replacement Therapy Medications used for opiate addiction work as agonists‚ antagonists or utilize a combination of both actions. By definition‚ agonists cause a chemical action by binding to cell receptors and mimicking the action of naturally occurring substances such as neurochemicals. Antagonists also attach to cell receptor sites but instead of causing an action‚ they block the receptor from being stimulated by a target substance
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surgeries. It has become a popular practice to add opioids in the local anesthetics being used for spinal anesthesia. This is being done to enhance and prolong the intra-operative and post-operative analgesia. Morphine and tramadol are opioids that can be used for this purpose‚ but there are no specific guidelines on the dosage of these specific opioids to be added in the local anesthetic. Furthermore‚ the incidence of side effects of these different opioids is still controversial. This will be a retrospective
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behavioral variation in infant attachment in rhesus macaca which shows a co-adaption of the gene OPRMI in the framework of mother infant relationships. Opioids are said to be important controllers of maternal behavior in offspring by matching the onset of maternal behavior with parturition and maternal affect‚ during evolution‚ the function of opioids have achieved the additional role of facilitating both infant attachment and maternal care (Curly‚
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Justin Sampson Psych 531 Psychobiology Paper Assignment Buprenorphine is a semi-synthetic opioid that can be used to treat opioid dependence of various types including heroin‚ and a vast array of prescription opiates/opioids. It is a drug that’s use is relatively new in the field of opioid addiction/treatment compared to traditional older drugs like methadone and LAAM (Levacetylmethadyl)‚ however the drug itself is not new. Since its discovery by Reckitt Benckiser in 1980 (then called Reckitt
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Overdosing on Life All a person has to do is take this one pill‚ inhale this smoke one time‚ stick this needle into the vein and empty the syringe one time. All it takes is one time because after all a person is just wanting to feel something‚ whether it be happiness‚ a rush‚ or something to take the edge off. A person will do whatever it takes to get a rush: pills‚ injections‚ smoking‚ or anything that can get the adrenaline pumping through the veins so fast they cannot even begin to think straight
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anti-inflammatory‚ or opioids (Boyles‚ 2011). Treating chronic pain with opioids can be affective. But the long term use presents many problems. Especially with treating a substance abuser of prescription or nonprescription opioid drugs. Patients that are prone so substance abuse‚ current substance abusers‚ and health care providers of the patients need to consider and promote alternative treatment for pain management (Compton‚ 2011). Some of the greatest problems with prescribing opioids is
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