Opioid Overdose in Marion County: A Local Issue

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Introduction
The Marion County is located in the Florida state of United States of America and it
includes the Ocala Metropolitan Area. The historical value of the place is considerably high
as various evidence of ancient relics have been found in the region. The rural areas have been
used historically to breed and grow horses for racing. The region is dotted with big farmlands
and also national parks and sanctuaries. Florida’s 1st tourist destination has been developed in
the Silver Spring that has been developed around the Silver River. The Silver Spring State
Park was also developed around this time. In spite of all these strengths of the region there
are various political issues that have affected the county.
Discussion
The biggest issue in the local area has been the Opioid deaths that has caused national
headlines because of its serious nature. Cases of opioids incorporate morphine, heroin,
fentanyl, tramadol, and methadone. Indications incorporate deficient breathing, little eyeballs,
and obviousness. Beginning of side effects depends to a limited extent on the course opioids
are taken. Among the individuals who at first survive, entanglements can incorporate
rhabdomyolysis, pneumonic edema, compartment disorder, and brain harm which cannot be
overturned. Hazard factors for opioid overdose incorporate opioid reliance, infusing opioids,
utilizing high measurements of opioids, mental clutters, and utilize together with liquor or
benzodiazepines. The hazard is especially high after detoxification. Reliance on medicine
opioids can happen from their utilization to treat interminable pain. Diagnosis is by and large
in light of manifestations (Ray et al., 2017).
The rate of Opioid deaths in this region is higher than the other parts of America, and
this has been a raging political issue in the area. Overdose of Opioid happens in the state
since long and there have been political movements in order to reduce the usage and

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consumption of the drug. The addiction starts with the usage of drug as a trial and the usage
increases to become addiction at a point of time which then becomes addiction (Patrick et al.,
2016). Therefore it is generally held in the political scenario that if the drug distribution can
be reduced in the first place then naturally the deaths due to overdose can be controlled.
The following report states the real situation unground in the region. This is the case
of Destiny a girl who is 11 years old, Destiny Hise who is really close with her mother Misty
Autumn Buckholz and requires to spend time with her. She reaches her grand mom’s house
and finds a paper of blue and white color, she gets hand on her mother’s diaries and things
that she left. "My mom composed five diaries," said Destiny as she experienced the crate,
which is enclosed by her mother's most loved hues, on an ongoing day.
Destiny is just going to enter into the 6th grade and she stays with her grandmother,
Kandee Buckholz, most of the time in the last 6 years of her life, while her mom spent time in
jail and was moving in the direction of a medication less life before she passed on of an
overindulgence of cocaine and the powerful opioid fentanyl on the day of March 25 at her
condo in Ocala. Looking for answers for a developing pestilence in the vicinity, the Mayor of
Ocala Kent Guinn, in partnership with Mike Jordan, official chief of the Marion County,
made a heroin/opioid team in May. At the main gathering, Guinn said there were about 70
deaths due to overdose in the year 2016 in Ocala. Greg Graham, who is the Police Chief, said
the count so far in the year 2017 were poised to coordinate the 2016 count. Jordan stated
there were more demises due to overdose in the year 2016 across the nation than movement
fatalities. He additionally referred to an expansion in rush hour gridlock fatalities including
illicit medications.
Gathering individuals, partitioned into instruction and counteractive action, law
implementation, treatment and therapeutic perspectives, meet routinely to talk about