Until it is, nurses and other healthcare providers may want to try to help identify this “condition.” It would have been difficult for Patsie McCandless to imagine a better, more appropriate gift for her 2nd Grade class. It was 1980, and every classroom in…
Five years ago, Lisa Oldham’s nurses at Orange Regional Medical Center saw, maybe, five, opioid-addicted patients a day. Now, the number has more than doubled, adding physical, mental, and professional stress on the 1,000 nurses working for the upstate New York hospital. “Recently while…
APNA launches webinars to inform nurses about opioid use disorder Opioid drugs-from illicit heroin right down to prescribed oxycodone, hydrocodone and others-have been causing overdose and substance abuse problems for decades. In recent years, however, the pain-relieving, pleasure-inducing drugs have grown from a whisper…
The prevalence of opioid abuse is a terrifying reality-and overdoses are becoming increasingly common. Between 2002 and 2014, the rate of heroin-related overdose deaths more than quadrupled, with more than 10,500 deaths occurring in 2014 alone.1 However, heroin overdoses do not make up the…
The prevalence of opioid abuse is a terrifying reality-and overdoses are becoming increasingly common. Between 2002 and 2014, the rate of heroin-related overdose deaths more than quadrupled, with more than 10,500 deaths occurring in 2014 alone.1 However, heroin overdoses do not make up the…
Alcoholism is a disease that poses many threats to health. In the United States in the year 2006, 2.5 million people out of the 22.6 million people identified as having a substance abuse problem, received treatment for alcoholism. 1 Despite these alarming statistics nurses lack knowledge…
As a student in an undergraduate psychology class, I was required to attend an Alcoholic Anonymous meeting. This simple experience opened my eyes to an important issue as a person and as a future nurse. Alcohol addiction has no social boundaries. For those affected,…
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