Opioids Thesis Statement

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ENG102

Healthcare Care Management

Individuals who use Opioids are Addicts

Presented By Donovan Greenfield

Presented to Professor Jessica Felizardo March 17, 2016

THESIS STATEMENT

Individuals who use Opioids are Addicts?

Outline

Thesis Statement

History of Opioids & Statistics

What drugs are considered Opioids?

When was Opioids Created?

What Era patients first prescribed Opioids?

Americas usage with Opioids

Estimated number of individuals in the U.S. who are addicted

What Addiction Characteristics to Opioids

Pain Killers and Pain Management

Cancer Patients

Chronic Pain Patients

Treatment plan for Pain

Changes and plans for Addiction

Physical Therapy

Support Groups

Individual Support from

Recreational use has created the big debatable topic about opioid users are usually addicts. They should not be taken recreational only prescribed. As a person myself who uses opioids for my chronic pain, I do not consider myself to be addicted it makes me constipated very nauseous and itchy. So I beg my physicians if there is another way to deal with the pain because I do not have the constant need for the drug because it makes me feel gross. Even though my pain is unbearable at times I try not to take the opioids. Chronic pain patients become addicted to opioid drugs? Is what most people think or say that are misinformed. Although most chronic pain patients who take opioids on a long ? term basis will become physically dependent on the drug. Very few who will develop a problem are often highly influenced to addiction due to a genetic predisposition. In a survey at least 20,000 patients who were medically prescribed opioids, a small handful could be found who got into trouble with them. So chronic pain patient becoming addicted to opioid medications, is definitely the exception rather than the

A specific treatment can sometimes significantly reduce or resolve chronic pain, but successful treatment is frequently a process that demands the patient?s active engagement. Addiction treatment clinicians, as they work to induce and support recovery, are in an excellent position to help patients implement components of the pain management process. Common components include:

Raising the patient?s awareness of factors that increase and relieve the pain, and accommodating behaviors to reduce pain (e.g., cognitive-behavioral approaches);

Improving physical fitness, including flexibility, strength, and conditioning, while respecting any limits imposed by the pain;

Reducing stress and the associated muscular/autonomic tension;

Selectively using specific therapeutic interventions such as injections, therapeutic exercise, and orthotics;

Making structured use of self-administered care interventions, such as the application of ice or heat, TENS, stretching, relaxation, and