Persuasive Essay On Opioids

Introduction:

All opioids are highly addictive and dangerous to give to anyone in any type of pain. The promotion of them should be outlawed and the sales restricted and regulated across the United States to those who really need them. Extensive research can conclude that this epidemic is fast growing and effects people from all walks of life. This being every race, gender and age throughout all fifty states, making this problem extremely difficult and unable to isolate toa certain demographic group. These drugs are being prescribed for all types of pain ranging from a simple cavity repair to something as complex as brain cancer. This diversity must be stopped if there is going to be any progress to resolve this problem affecting more than 1 in 3 Americans in 2015 alone. For those currently using opioids it can be very difficult to stop, and that is why so many people are still using. Even if sobered before, there is a very high percentage for relapsing. So the only real solution to see results is to completely outlaw the promotion of opioids, lowering the problem of addiction

Though restricting and monitoring where they go and who they are sold to would alleviate the risk of them being sold on the streets illegally to addicts and also prevents any future addictions from forming. This policy would not criminalize all opioids from being prescribed because there has not yet been a new drug that mirrors the pain relief of opioids without the same harmful effects. Though according to an article from The Guardian entitled Breakthrough brings non-addictive opioid alternatives a step closer says that “ The protein, known as the kappa opioid receptor, is one of four that interacts with opioids, but – crucially – while it can trigger pain-killing effects, it is not linked to problems including constipation, addiction risk and death as a result of overdose” (Davis,