Module 1 Assignment: Opioid Crisis Agenda Comparison and Analysis

This assignment presents an analysis of the opioid crisis in the United States through the lens of presidential agendas, focusing on the administrations of Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and George Bush. It begins with a comparison grid that details each president's administrative agenda, financial allocations, and approaches to the issue. The assignment then delves into an analysis of which administrative agencies would be most responsible for addressing the healthcare issue, how the issue might be prioritized by different administrations, and the selection of key figures to champion the cause. The assignment also highlights the importance of the opioid crisis as a public health concern and emphasizes the crucial role of nurses in advocating for solutions. The student's work includes a discussion of the crisis and the policies of the various administrations, supported by references to relevant literature.

Agenda Comparison Grid and Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief Assignment
Template for Part 1 and Part 2
Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid
Use this Agenda Comparison Grid to document information about the population health/healthcare issue your selected and the
presidential agendas. By completing this grid, you will develop a more in depth understanding of your selected issue and how you
might position it politically based on the presidential agendas.
You will use the information in the Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid to complete the remaining Part 2 and Part 3 of your
Assignment.
Identify the Population
Health concern you selected.
The ongoing opioid crisis in the United States in patients experiencing pain
Describe the Population
Health concern you selected
and the factors that
contribute to it.
There are certain individuals who experience pain because of different medical conditions. It has been researched
that consumption of opioid-containing medications can reduce the prevalence of pain in individuals. Hence,
pharmaceutical companies have been manufacturing medicines containing opioid to reduce the incidence and
intensity of pain in patients (Corrigan & Nieweglowski, 2018). It is for this reason that overdoses of opioid have
been observed in the population for which detrimental health effects have been reported. Individuals have started to
feel addicted to opioid and find it difficult to come out of the addiction.
Administration (President
Name)
Donald Trump Barack Obama George Bush
Describe the administrative
agenda focus related to this
issue for the current and tw0
previous presidents.
In October 2017, President Trump
proclaimed the crisis of opioid a
general wellbeing crisis. From that
point onward, the Trump
Administration has applied an all-of-
Government way to deal with the
epidemic, taking an exceptional scope
of activities that mirror the President's
In October 2015, President Obama
reported in West Virginia a portion
of the government, state, nearby, and
private division endeavors against
doctor prescribed medication abuse
of opioid before a group of
individuals of human health services
experts and individuals influenced
President Bush had an agenda of
making available other medications
as pain-killers because of adverse
health effects of opioid during
those times.
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Agenda Comparison
Grid Template

responsibility to leaving the
emergency (Achenbach et al., 2017).
by the epidemic caused by opioid.
Identify the allocations of
financial and other resources
that the current and two
previous presidents dedicated
to this issue.
In the Budget of President Trump
throughout the following two years,
$13 billion is to be channeled in
endeavors to battle the opioid
epidemic. Moreover, the
administration intends to affirm $6
billion throughout the following two
years to finance programs planned for
fighting utilization of opioid.
However, in spite of big funds being
allocated, it is not clear as to how
much did the firms really receive at
the end.
The President's FY 2017 Budget
adopted a two dimensional strategy
to address this epidemic (Williams
& Bisaga, 2016). It incorporates $1
billion in new compulsory
subsidizing more than two years to
grow access to treatment for
physician endorsed sedate
maltreatment and heroin use.
The President allocated $400
billion worth fund for prescribing
drug bill to Medicare enrolled
citizens (Khawam, 2018).
Explain how each of the
presidential administrations
approached the issue.
President Trump's Initiative to Stop
Opioid Abuse, disclosed in 2018, is
standing up to the main impetuses
behind the narcotic emergency
(Humphreys, Caulkins & Felbab-
Brown, 2018). One of the points is to
instruct Americans about the risks of
opioid misuse by diminishing the
stock of illegal medications by taking
action against the global and local
medication supply chains.
Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention
Plan was introduced by President
Barack Obama to educate the
individuals about the dangerous
side-effects which are likely to be
experienced by administering opioid
drugs and also monitoring the
overall usage of the drugs for the
treatment.
President Bush made sure to
implement these actions with the
help of collaboration from other
interprofessionals in the country
such that the health outcome of the
patients is not compromised.
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Part 2: Agenda Comparison Grid Analysis
Using the information you recorded in Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid, complete the following to document information about the
population health/healthcare issue your selected
Administration (President
Name)
Donald Trump Barack Obama George Bush
Which administrative agency
would most likely be responsible
for helping you address the
healthcare issue you selected?
Food and Drug Administration Food and Drug Administration Food and Drug Administration
How do you think your selected
healthcare issue might get on the
agenda for the current and two
previous presidents? How does it
stay there?
In 2016 alone, some 64,000
Americans died from a drug
overdose. More than 42,000 of
these deaths were for opioid
overdoses, more than every year
before on record (Soelberg et al.,
2017). Hence, it is because of
this reason that the main concern
of the Trump Government was
to enhance the awareness among
the public for the detrimental
effects of opioid overuse.
New data from the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) indicate that in 2014,
opioids, a class of drugs that
includes prescription pain killers
and heroin, had been involved in
28,648 deaths. Hence, it is
because of this reason that the
main concern of the Obama
Government was to enhance the
awareness among the public for
the detrimental effects of opioid
overuse.
Between 2006 and 2017 more
than 542,000 people died from
drug overdose, according to
CDC estimates ()’Donnell,
Gladeen & Seth, 2017). Hence, it
is because of this reason that the
main concern of the Bush
Government was to enhance the
awareness among the public for
the detrimental effects of opioid
overuse.
Who would you choose to be the
entrepreneur/ champion/sponsor
of the healthcare issue you
selected for the current and two
previous presidents?
The director of Centre of
Disease Control.
The director of Centre of
Disease Control.
The director of Centre of
Disease Control.
Note: Part 3: of the Module 1: Assignment: Agenda Comparison Grid and Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief is a 1-page Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief the you
will create in a separate document.
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Importance of this healthcare issue
The healthcare issue relating to opioid crisis in the United States of America has been consequently increasing year by year despite the
initiatives planned by the Presidents. Hence, more fund is to be allocated for the awareness among the citizens of the country and the rural
people such that the incidence rate of opioid misuse is decreased.
Role of nurses
The nurses will play a crucial role in the agenda setting of opioid misuse as they are the first individuals who give care to the sick individuals.
They have the right to advocate to the people about the detrimental effects of overuse of opioid for painkillers (Jackson & Lopez, 2018). Hence,
it is them in collaboration with other healthcare professionals who will be advocating to the individuals in awareness programs.
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References
Achenbach, J., Wagner, J., Bernstein, L., & Johnson, J. (2017). Trump says opioid crisis is a national emergency, pledges more money and
attention. Washington Post, 10.
Corrigan, P. W., & Nieweglowski, K. (2018). Stigma and the public health agenda for the opioid crisis in America. International Journal of
Drug Policy, 59, 44-49.
Humphreys, K., Caulkins, J. P., & Felbab-Brown, V. (2018). Opioids of the masses: Stopping an American epidemic from going
global. Foreign Aff., 97, 118.
Jackson, H. J., & Lopez, C. M. (2018). Utilization of the nurse practitioner role to combat the opioid crisis. The Journal for Nurse
Practitioners, 14(10), e213-e216.
Khawam, D. (2018). Is the End to the Opioid Epidemic Near: Florida and Other States Attempt to Address the Crisis By Passing New Limits
on Opioid Prescriptions. Nova L. Rev., 43, 49.
O’Donnell, J. K., Gladden, R. M., & Seth, P. (2017). Trends in deaths involving heroin and synthetic opioids excluding methadone, and law
enforcement drug product reports, by census region—United States, 2006–2015. MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly
report, 66(34), 897.
Soelberg, C. D., Brown, R. E., Du Vivier, D., Meyer, J. E., & Ramachandran, B. K. (2017). The US opioid crisis: current federal and state legal
issues. Anesthesia & Analgesia, 125(5), 1675-1681.
Williams, A. R., & Bisaga, A. (2016). From AIDS to opioids—how to combat an epidemic. New England Journal of Medicine, 375(9), 813-
815.
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