Chasing the Pain

Opioids, which are categorized as narcotics, are a group of pain-relieving drugs. Opioids are used legally (through a prescription from a physician) and illegally (without medical permission). Opioids are found naturally and made synthetically by pharmaceutical companies. These highly addictive drugs efficiently reduce or numb pain but also create an intense high. The easy access and high addiction risk have caused America to be experiencing an opioid epidemic that began in the late 1990s. This epidemic has taken almost a million lives in the United States alone. The following chapters discuss opioids and their impacts.

 

The Ongoing Crisis of Neonatal Opioid Withdrawl Syndrome

The Medical and Clinical Guidelines for Prescribing Drugs Post-Surgery in Adolescents

Implications of Dentistry in the Opioid Epidemic

Drug Cutting Agents in Synthetic Opioids

The Rise of Fentanyl

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The Diversity of Drugs: History, Effects, and Everything in Between Copyright © by Anna Lipke; Sydney Taggart; Sullivan Bishop; Sydney Herchenbach; Samuel Hurley; Margaret Crisologo; Lauren Sizemore; Katie Massie; Katie Lucas; Grayson Ellis; Elizabeth Tomkovich; Eliza Martin; Dylan DePersia; Delaney Morley; Jackson Van Vlake; Cooper Nicholson; Caroline Mueckler; Cameron Cox; Brooke Breedlove; Brandon Shealy; Allyson Woolbert; and Bella Huston is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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