https://padlet.com/kathy_cook3/ysviv2rzdbp8 Made with panache en-us 2019-10-21 12:35:32 UTC 2019-10-21 12:57:16 UTC hello@padlet.com kathy_cook3 https://padlet.com/kathy_cook3/ysviv2rzdbp8/wish/400254730  | Opium comes from the poppy plant, and while which origins are unclear opium has been around for centuries, it was and is used in cooking, as well as medically and recreational use.In fact," two centuries ago, opium was generally available as a cure all for everything. It was like aspirin; every household had some, usually in the form of laudanum" ( Abadinsky 2018).The pharmaceutical companies of today have done the same thing with oxycodone as the laudanum did then, and before anyone knew what was happening multitudes of people were addicted.But there was a major difference between then and now.

]]> 2019-10-21 12:38:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kathy_cook3/ysviv2rzdbp8/wish/400254730 kathy_cook3 https://padlet.com/kathy_cook3/ysviv2rzdbp8/wish/400256215  | Because a laudanum was prescribed for anything from pain to diarrhea, and so many people were taking it people were not ostracize for being addicted.At cited by( Abadinsky 2018)," you were not fired because you are addicted, has been and why did not divorce, children are not removed from there as a result of their parents addiction. Addicts continued to participate fully in the life of the community addicted children continue to go to school, Sunday school, and college. Thus, the 19th century avoided one of the most disastrous effects of current narcotic laws and attitudes: the rise of a deviant addict subculture, cut off from respectable society and without a road back to respectability" (Brecher et al.1972 6-7). In fact the laws of today, make addiction a moral issue but according to the Science of Addiction (2007 :5) "addiction is a chronic relapsing brain disease is characterized by compulsive drug seeking and drug use despite its harmful consequences" (Abadinsky 2018).Opioids are responsible for countless deaths each year.According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, " In 2017 more than 70,000 people died from drug overdoses, making it the leading cause of of injury related – in the United States. Of those deaths almost 68% involved in prescription or illicit opioid" (Center for Disease Control 2019).Today's drug trade is even more dangerous than ever, they are being mixed with powerful drugs like Fentanyl, and because of this many never make it to rehabilitation just the grave.

]]> 2019-10-21 12:40:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kathy_cook3/ysviv2rzdbp8/wish/400256215 kathy_cook3 https://padlet.com/kathy_cook3/ysviv2rzdbp8/wish/400257231  | Abadinsky,  H.  (2018).  Drug Use and Abuse. Cengage Learning.
 Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2019).

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