1. Finish PBS Frontline: Chasing Heroin
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1. What is "Opioid Addiction"? 2. Should we treat Opioid addiction as a criminal or health issue: NJ Gov. Chris Christie's answer 3. Continue PBS Frontline: Chasing Heroin
HW: Assignent #13 A. Read the information below about each of the alternative responses to the opioid/heroin crisis. A. Methadone (medication assisted) B. Buprenorphine - (medication assisted) C. Needle Exchanges (harm reduction) D. Supervised Injection Sites (harm reduction) E. LEAD (Seattle's diversion program) B. After reading, briefly explain each option and share your opinions on the approach. 1. Alcohol and drug use among teens is down...
2. Drug Use Opinion Survey - Kahoot
3. Short Answers to Hard Questions About the Opioid Crisis 4. PBS Frontline: Chasing Heroin
1. Alcohol and drug use among teens is down...
2. Finish: Drugs in America "Quiz" 3. Drug overdoses now kill more Americans than HIV/AIDS did at its peak. These maps and charts tell the story. 4. Why is the opioid crisis hitting rural areas hardest? Some sociological hypotheses: "As the epidemic becomes more deadly and reaches into more communities across the country, researchers are scrambling to both diagnose what causes some places and people to be more susceptible to opioid abuse, and to devise solutions. Jack Westfall, a family physician and researcher at the University of Colorado and with the High Plains Research Network, works with a network of rural clinics and hospitals in the state and says doctors on the plains are feeling frantic. “The number one issue we’re facing is opioids,” Westfall says. For more than a decade, opioids have been a key part of a rural doctor’s pain management for patients, Westfall says. When there’s a lack of treatment options in a rural area, alternatives like physical therapy are out of the question and drugs are a prime option. Medication-assisted treatment for drug addiction is also limited, leaving those addicted forced to drive hours to get prescriptions for Buprenorphine, an opioid used to wean people off heroin and other illicit forms of the drug. When a patient shows up addicted to prescription medication, many rural doctors feel helpless, Westfall says. “We don’t know what to do with this wave of people who are using opioids,” he says. “They’re in the clinic, they’re in the ER, they’re in the hospital. They’re in the morgue, because they overdosed.” Rural areas may be particularly fertile ground to the growing opioid problem. Some researchers think larger economic, environmental and social factors leave rural Americans at-risk. University of California-Davis epidemiologist Magdalena Cerdasays the epidemic is a perfect storm. After the 2008 recession, rural areas consistently lagged behind urban areas in the recovery, losing jobs and population. “You have a situation where people might be particularly vulnerable to perhaps using prescription opioids to self-medicate a lot of symptoms of distress related to sources of chronic stress, chronic economic stress,” Cerda says. The specific types of jobs more prevalent in rural areas -- like manufacturing, farming and mining -- tend to have higher injury rates. That can lead to more pain, and possibly, to more painkillers. Other research points to the unique social structures in rural America as a potential cause. In some ways, rural regions are built to spread illicit drugs. Kirk Dombrowski, a sociologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, says people who live in rural areas tend to have sprawling social networks. “One of the things that is counterintuitive to most of what we think of as a small town is that rural people have much larger social networks than urban people,” Dombrowski says. In some cases, Dombrowski says, rural residents know and interact with about double the number of people an average urban resident does, giving rural people more opportunities to know where to access drugs. “So some of those social factors of being in a small town can definitely contribute,” he says. The epidemic’s rural nature landed it on the desk of U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack who’s been leading the Obama Administration’s interagency push to curb opioid abuse. That included a $1 billion budget request recently funded by Congress in the form of the 21st Century Cures Act, structured to give grants to states hardest hit by the epidemic. “It’s not a fundamentally rural problem,” Vilsack says. “But it’s a unique problem in rural America because of the lack of treatment capacity and facilities.” HW: HW - Assignment #12: A. Choose 5 charts/graphs from the article linked at item #3 above that are the most surprising, shocking, or maddening to you. Explain/describe what each graph says about the American opioid epidemic and why it stuck out to you. B. What is at least one "sociological" cause of the opioid epidemic in rural areas provided by the excerpt of the article linked to at item #4 above? Upload to eBackpack Assignment #12 1. Drug Use Opinion Survey - Kahoot
2. Drugs in America "Quiz" HW: none 1. The Age That Women Have Babies: How a Gap Divides America
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