opioid Use and Life Expectancy Research 2022

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OPIOID USE AND LIFE EXPECTANCY
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Research Topic:
“Association between Opioid use and life expectancy in Canadian population.”
Introduction:
In the beginning, opium drugs were mainly prescribed for severe pain due to cancer or
terminal disease injury or operations or serious pain. Doctors were unwilling to prescribe Opioid
for other circumstances because there was no proof to support broader prescription procedures
(Rummans, Burton & Dawson, 2018). Furthermore, doctors feared discipline and enforcement if
they were to prescribe Opioid in a more liberal manner. A number of doctors and pain
organisations have started to advocate for the more aggressive use of Opioid for pain
management for those with suffering. In the 1980s, the U.S. Academy of Pain Medicine and the
American Pain Society agreed that Opioid must have a function in treating patients with chronic
non-cancer pain (Rummans, Burton & Dawson, 2018). This is the result of a slow but steady
development of the use of Opioid for all people with "pain." The advertising message urged
prescribers to continue using this Opioid for chronic pain and stressed the absence of adverse
repercussion. The amount of prescriptions per year for OxyContin subsequently grew from 670,
000 to 6.2 million between 1997 and 2002 with an increase of 45 million for the total of Opioid
prescriptions (Rummans, Burton & Dawson, 2018).
Thesis Statement:
The health loss associated with Opioid use is greater in Canada than in all other nations of high
income with the exception of the US.

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Discussion and Analysis:
Overdoses and fatalities from Opioid in North America have been proclaimed an
emergency for public health. Apart from the advent of fentanyl on the illicit market, the
increased incidence of reliance on opium contributes to premature mortality and the urgent need
to mobilize health and public safety funds (Russolillo , Moniruzzaman & Somers, 2018). In
reaction to the escalation of the public health crisis, many of the major North American health
organizations (Health Canada, the American Medical Association, and Centres for Disease
Control and Prevention) have set priorities. Prevention, education and extensive care, including
access to alternative therapy, are emphasized in interventions. Specific attention was paid to
communities at high risk, including criminals. Accidental toxicity is the most prevalent cause of
death in the bulk of drug -related ex-prisoner fatalities among Opioid - dependent people with
opioids (Russolillo , Moniruzzaman & Somers, 2018). Several mortality-related risk factors
among the perpetrators are overrepresented, which compound the risks connected with substance
abuse (for example, repeated prison sentence, low socioeconomic status, and homelessness). The
incidence of Opioid dependence and risk of illicit drug deaths like heroin among offenders is
greater and increased significantly in the weeks after jail release (Russolillo , Moniruzzaman &
Somers, 2018).