Essays About Opioid Epidemic

Christopher was a great student and a star athlete. One day, he got in a car wreck, which left him with minor back pain that remained after the car crash. Because of this back pain, he was prescribed opioids to help with the pain. Christopher...

On March 19, 2014, 26 year old Jessie Yasenchok was found dead in her apartment by local police in Elizabethtown, New York. Further investigation revealed the cause of death, an accidental overdose from her mother’s fentanyl patches, stolen from her car. The patches, which help...

It seems that as long as mankind has been present on this earth, our species has sought various forms of escapism. A lot of the times, this need to escape manifests in the use of drugs. Whether it was marijuana and other hallucinogenic drugs of...

The Opioid epidemic has always been an issue, however, more light has been shed on it as of late, as Congress is close to passing a bill that would fund at least 1 billion dollars to address the heroin epidemic. However, the concern is due...

How can we curb opioid abuse in America? To answer this question, we need to find out why people use opioids in the first place. One reason is that they are easily accessible. A family member could have some that a young adult could reach...

What is a huge epidemic running rampant in our world today? For many, the answer would not be addiction. Epidemics are battles against viruses, flus, and other common ailments that haunt our daily lives. Opioid addiction is the physical and mental state of dependence on...

Opiates are one of the oldest naturally occurring drugs in the world with the first known record coming from modern-day Iraq around 3000 B.C. According to Hardey, opiates have been used for medicinal purposes for thousands of years to treat pain; however, it was not...

The United States of America only contains 5% of the world’s population, however, the country is full of prescription medication and devours 80% of the worlds prescription opioids. Of the people in the US over the age of 12 approximately 54 million people have used...

As Trump’s presidency continues to go on it is faced with the daunting task of curing the opioid epidemic that plagues the world of today. With that come questions about whether he is keeping his promises and helping America grow stronger as a country. Persecuting...

Introduction Opioid epidemics across the world create significant problems for infrastructure and regulation in governments. Suboxone is a drug that has recently been introduced to assist drug addicts with their addiction. Drug addiction has been rising exponentially as more users report chronic pain to depression....

Johnson & Johnson is an American multinational corporation based in New Brunswick, NJ founded in 1886 that develops medical devices, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods. The company was founded over 130 years ago by three brothers: Robert Wood Johnson, James Wood Johnson, and Edward Mead...

Introduction The war on drugs has made multiple attempts on reducing the consumption of illegal drugs and abuses since the 1970s. Whether that is from laws or strict requirements, there has been an uprise in pharmaceutical abuse and dependency in young adults in the United...

There is a disastrous disease rampaging through the United States — and it is being prescribed to its victims. This monstrosity of an outbreak is being referred to as the Opioid Crisis and is taking the world by storm. Opioids are powerful, pain-relieving drugs that...