OPIODS USE IN THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM ESSAY
OPIODS USE IN THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM ESSAY
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-Recent health care legislature ( within 3 years)
– Literature review regarding issue ( 5 peer review article)
– Statistical data related to issue, population impacted and health care outcome of issue and legislature
– Nursing role in passing the legislature
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Running head: OPIODS USE IN THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
OPIODS USE IN THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM 2
Opiods Use in the Health Care System
Marlon Parra
Virginia Lombardo
Osmani Ramirez
Jesus Diaz
Heriberto Rodriguez
Giselle Milian Vizoso
Ayosent Balart
Maria Del Carmen Leon
Carlos A Leon
Miami Regional College
Professor James
March XX, 2019
Introduction
Opioid analgesics are powerful pain-relieving medications that involve prescription such as hydrocodone, morphine, and oxycodone among other drugs while some other opioid medications have also been approved for cough treatment. Even though they have benefits as powerful analgesics, opioid misuse and abuse have significantly escalated in the United States within the past two decades and this has represented it as one of the major public health concerns due to its associated risks of coma and fatal respiratory depression as a result of opioid analgesic overdose. Various scholars have carried out studies regarding issues associated with opioid while legislatures have also been coming up with policies to address the issue. This essay is therefore going to address the recent healthcare legislature, literature review, and statistical data related to opioid as well as the role of nurses in passing the opioid legislature.
Recent Healthcare Legislature
Deaths linked to drug overdoses or misuses have lent to an unprecedented reduction in life expectancy within the United States over the past few years. According to Jukiewicz et al. (2017), opioid analgesics such as OxyContin, Percocet, and Vicodin are the most commonly prescribed drugs within the United States, with overall sales of about 2 billion dollars in a single year. This drug is however abused or misused for various reasons. Even though not every opioid user is looking for a prescription with the purpose of misusing or abusing it, there are several behaviors that are common in those who abuse it. One of the common sign of misuse and abuse is that people with no legitimate job regularly offer money for prescription drugs. According to the research conducted by National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators in 2017, oxycodone costs about 1 dollar for just a milligram in the black markets nearly anywhere within the United States (Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, 2017).
Within 2017 alone, there were more than a total of 70,000 deaths that were related to overdose deaths which accounts for more fatalities than HIV, gun violence, and auto accidents put together (Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, 2017). The opioid epidemic greatly contributed to the step up of these deaths making it to be declared a National Public Health Emergency in 2017 (Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, 2017). The United States Senate thus passed legislation in response to the opioid crisis which included more than 70 individual bills such as Health, Education, Finance, Labor, and Pensions; Commerce; Judiciary; Finance and Banking.
