Alyssa and Claire’s Hydrocodone Mini-Presentation.
Hi i’m alyssa i’m claire and we are doing our substance abuse project on hydrocodone hydrocodone is an opioid derivative with the trade name of vicodin the street name is bike it’s used in the medical setting to relieve severe pain when other pain relieving methods have not been successful it’s commonly abused when a patient receives a prescription for vicodin
And becomes dependent on the substance leading to an increase in use and addiction the user demographics patients usually receive vicodin be a prescription when they have severe pain and other way is when people use illicit drugs and obtain by illegally 99% of hydrocodone abuse takes place in the united states patients who are addicted to hydrocodone commonly
Engage in the practice of doctor shopping to obtain their supply and according to the centers for disease control and prevention over 11.5 million people over the ages of 12 years old have abused prescription opioids hydrocodone can affect the mind in many ways including changing the brains response to pain as well as the central nervous systems response to
Pain hydrocodone can cause you forea and hallucinations it’s commonly combined with heroin to increase the you forex of euphoric effects apathy dysphoria impaired judgment attention and memory may eventually be altered with abuse of hydrocodone so symptoms that can occur with hydrocodone use include sedation constipation respiratory depression reduced level of
Consciousness addiction people area constriction slurred speech psychomotor problems and there are many other adverse events that can occur as well opioid withdrawal can create potentially life-threatening complications related to a syndrome of symptoms that include nausea vomiting muscle aches diaphoresis lacrimation fever and insomnia these complications can
Include cardiac arrhythmias coma respiratory depression and death related to opioid intoxication when a patient is withdrawing from opioids they may experience fluid and electrolyte imbalance is related to vomiting diaphoresis and lacrimation they can also have difficulties in respiration in decreased level of consciousness so some nursing challenges in the er
That can occur include dehydration because of nausea vomiting lacrimation diaphoresis etc and fluid electrolyte imbalance may occur as well nurses need to be aware of this assess and get lab reports and fluids may need to be administered because of the arrhythmias an ekg ekg may need to be obtained orders for medication to correct the heart rate may need to be
Administered quickly as well and you only have in order for that you may also need to administer narcan to reverse severe respiratory depression related to opiate intoxication generally this intervention is completed when respirations are below 10 usually between 8 and 10 with severe level consciousness impairment when administering narcan remember this takes away
All good feelings so the patient may wake up extremely agitated and violent while there are nursing challenges and o be related to hydrocodone pregnancy is not a valid reason to not prescribe opioids for pain relief however with abuse babies can be overly sedated while in the womb and after birth infants commonly have neonatal abstinence syndrome and aas because
They are exposed to narcotics in the moon and will thus undergo withdrawal nes is a serious and highly variable condition characterized by central nervous system hyper irritability and autonomic nervous system dysfunction the baby may experience poor intrauterine growth premature birth seizures other birth defects and many troubling adverse events made a little
Storybook and this is titled harry and the hard times with hydrocodone harry was playing basketball two of his friends victor and cody victor cody harry indeed victor was bad at sports victor was down by 20 points he then charged harry it was not a good situation his hairs also grew dramatically yes harry fell down and he was hurt see harry says ow victor says
Oh no and the sons crying it was a traumatic time so victor takes harry to the hospital a doctor examines him and his acl is torn it’s very low-budget hospital but they have a decent bed and doctor here with their pink stats – harry had surgery he was prescribed hydrocodone and sent home here he is being wheeled out of the hospital with his pills by the nurse he
Thinks it’ll help with his pain which makes its unhappy yes several months later harry is still taking his pain medications how do i get more of those pain meds as harry as he’s watching tv yeah he’s just kind of living living a solitary life harry’s friends are worried he used more pain meds than usual lately they’re worried about harry cody and victor worried
So is the sun they convinced him to go to bali hope they there they treat his symptoms there so this is valley hope only hope with their little flag and everything they help him get on the right track again and eventually he’ll play basketball again even the end and these are all the references that we have included within the power wing
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Hydrocodone By Claire Kringen
