Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs have become a major problem in their lives. The meeting, I attended, was on 1/8/15 at 8:00 pm located at Desert Spring Church 2301 Kings Row Reno. There were four members that attended the meeting in the basement of the church. This is a program of complete abstinence from all drugs and the only requirement for its members is to come to meetings and to have the desire to stop using drugs. The members of NA were all users and even the leaders of the group were users too. The leader of the group was a lady (we will call her Sally) and a man (who will be referred to as Jim). Sally was a very interesting lady because you could see how drugs had affected
her physically. She was constantly playing with her rings and looking around the room and had a twitchy kind of state. She reminded me of a hippie from the 70’s with long hair and bell-bottom jeans. Jim was a gentleman who was dressed for the cold weather outside. He was wearing a clean sweatshirt, jeans, and a beanie. He did not appear to a user to me but once started talking he said how he had used every drug in his youth. The other two members (I will call them Joe and Sam) both were younger gentlemen also dressed warmly for the meeting. Joe was a heavier set man that looked just like any other person you would see on the street, he did not appear as to be a user. Sam, on the other hand, had a rough 5-day beard going on and was very quiet. He said very little during the meeting or to the other members before the meeting started. Once the meeting started the first half was reading off a paper that only the members had. Each of the four members read from the paper about the rules of the meeting. Some of the key points that I noticed was that the members were not allowed to share how much or amounts of drugs they had consumed, the meetings were to be performed as a group, not an individual counselling session, meetings are held in churches, treatment centers, or other facilities that tend to be affordable, when members are speaking others are not allowed to speak or give advice, and lastly there are no membership fees but it does cost money to hold meetings and provide services so members are asked to donate voluntary when possible. Once all the rules were read aloud then the members began to share individually about their days and what was happening in their lives. They also talked about what had led them down the path of narcotics and how they were so grateful for this program. Everyone had a different story and talked for about twenty minutes each so they had a lot to say about what had happened. Once the meeting was finished they four members stood up and went to a corner of the room and said short prayer/NA reading. After the meeting is where I learned the most from Jim and Sally. They stayed after the meeting for about an hour and talked about the twelve steps and ways to help users as a nurse in the future. I found the twelve-step program to be very interesting because of how they have a sponsor. I like how the sponsor shares their experiences, strength, and hope with a selected member. A sponsor is not necessarily a friend, but someone in whom a member can confide. Sponsors allow members to share things that they might normally do in groups. These sponsors help new members through their twelve steps. Here are the twelve steps that narcotics anonymous use on a daily basis to help overcome their obstacles.
The center combines a safe housing environment with structured educational programs that incorporate the philosophies of Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. Alcoholics Anonymous is the original self help group founded on principles that provide support and encouragement for recovering alcoholics. New members are encouraged to work with a spon...
...e or social group for being an addict if it is not fully understood that they are trying to recover from their addiction (Methadone Cons).
However, rather than treating an addiction like a disease, society treats addiction by stigmatizing the person like a failure, and criminal. Those who suffer with this disease, both the addict, and their friends and family, are usually isolated by judgment and embarrassment from others, who are unaware and ignorant to the issue. As a result, the disease sadly often goes unrecognized and untreated, especially among the poor, and those who are unable to get proper treatment. Once again, I am very happy after attending my second meeting, and it has an overall great experience. I wish more people were open to meetings to see how great and beneficial they are to all kinds of people, and this summer that is my goal to open others up to attending meetings that could help benefit
On February 27, 2014, I visited an Alcohol Anonymous (A.A) therapeutic group meeting called Another Chance. Another Chance is an intergroup meeting located inside the Concord Baptist Church of Christ, at 833 Gardner C. Taylor Boulevard, Brooklyn, NY 11216. Another Chance has been in operation for over thirty years, and holds open discussion meetings on alcohol use and prevention, every Thursday from six in the evening until seven o’clock. This group interaction with alcohol substance use and abuse focuses on helping all members regardless of race, ethnicity or culture, to abstain from drinking one day at a time; and encourages them to maintain healthy thoughts and emotions through the use of the “Twelve Steps and Traditions” of recovery and intervention approaches.
Substance addiction is becoming an epidemic. While some people can quit using a substance without any help, most people need help to their recovery. Narcotics anonymous is an important support group for our society. There are many different narcotic anonymous programs to join that have meetings throughout the week. The members of the support group all share one thing in common, they suffer from different types of chemical dependency. Members help each other because they have the same problems and worries that everyone in the room has. Though they may be struggling with different stages in their life, for the most part, they all relate to what each is going through. Just as AA, NA focuses on the 12-step program. The members of
Ms. Roxie Riggs is a Caucasian female some sixty-five years of age presenting with narcotic addiction for an evaluation for possible medical addiction treatment. She is currently receiving treatment with buprenorphine; however, her practitioner moved away. Ms. Riggs was placed on methadone in 2001 (age 51), and stopped in 2005 (age 55). She has also been treated with naltrexone in the past, but not with naloxone. Ms. Riggs first began taking buprenorphine on January 1, 1994, and is still using the substance.
Heroin overdosing is the point of use where the addict wants to be without realizing the seriousness of the fact they are literally at the point of death. Drug overdose deaths in the United States have risen steadily since 1970. Painkillers actually kill more Americans than heroin and cocaine combined, according to the Centers for Disease Control, but heroin is still one of the No. 1 killers of illegal drug users. One in 10 heroin overdoses ends in death. XXX Heroin overdose causes the body to go into a deep sleep where the respiratory system shuts down. When you are sleeping your body naturally remembers to breathe. When you overdose, your body essentially forgets to breathe. Blood pressure dips significantly and causes the heart
There is no way one would talk about suboxone without its main component which is buprenorphine. Buprenorphine is a secondary form of the opioid alkaloid Thebaine. It has a chemical structure of C_29 H_41 〖NO〗_4. It acts differently depending on the activation site or receptor it is located. It works at mu and kappa opioid receptors as an agonist and at the delta opioid receptor as an antagonist. As a derivative of Thebaine, it is a stronger and longer-lasting painkiller compared to morphine. It proved to be more effective than morphine, when used in a comparably small dose.
During session with client, teacher informed me that client had to incidents prior to my arrival. The school had a Christmas program in the cafeteria. Jah'Raye became upset, teacher mention she wasn't sure why he was upset. She just felt it was possible to much noise and movement for the client. He was asked to go to the office to avoid getting into trouble. He went without incident and was ok with the decision made.
In 1974, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) created the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) in order to gather data on drug-related medical emergencies in major metropolitan hospitals in the U.S. There are two basic types of information that are reported. The first is the number of times that someone has been to an emergency department for ANY reason that relates to recent drug use. This can include purposeful or accidental overdoses, the use of illegal drugs, adverse reactions to medication, and recreational use of prescription or over-the-counter drugs. The second is the number of drug-related deaths, as determined by a professional. These are seven major circumstances that are the most addressed when it
As a newly elected sheriff of my county I would structure a narcotics unit that is sufficient for the jurisdiction, as well as, accommodates the two major Interstate roads and the other country that borders the county. The United States is limited by national boundaries to what can be done about drug trafficking (Abadinsky, 2014).
A controlled substance is any drug, whether prescribed or illegal, that has the potential of abuse or addiction. A controlled substance comes under a category of prescription drugs that contain an elevated level of restrictions for the public’s protection.
What is cocaine? Cocaine is a powerful and highly addictive (due to the way it functions) stimulant that is considered one of the deadliest drugs to date. When someone intakes this substance, it results in euphoric emotions, adding on to why it is deemed highly addictive. Cocaine overdose occurs when a person ingests enough of the drug to result in fatal side effects, normally ending with death. In 2011, just over half a million of the drug-related visits to emergency rooms were due to cocaine, and in 2014, more than 5,000 people died from cocaine overdosages. Aside from these facts, there are many other factors that can be addressed when thinking about cocaine abuse.
What is a drug addiction? A drug addiction is something that is hard to overcome. Sometimes it happens intentionally or sometimes it happens by accident and by accident I mean someone is prescribed a medication by a doctor and they become addicted to it. Intentionally, on the other hand, is when a doctor prescribes a medication and they intentionally abuse it. Prescription drugs aren’t the only things that are addicting, drugs like marijuana and heroin are addicting as well. In a more specific definition drug addiction is a dependence on an illegal drug or a legal medication.
1. What is meant by the term "drug abuse": Drug abuse is the use of a habit forming drug that can lead to addiction and dependence; this can also cause serious medical issues such as damage to the kidneys or liver. This can also cause mental harm such as hallucination or memory loss. The ultimate damage it can cause is death.