HSCI 180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Needle Exchange Programme, Crack Cocaine, Chronic Toxicity
3 May 2016
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Death, er visits, drugs in the workplace and lost productivity, broken homes, illnesses, shorter lives etc, cost of maintaining habit, cost of criminal behaviour, cost of treating patients, foetal alcohol syndrome. Problems directly related to actually taking the drug. Problems related to law enforcement, prevention, and treatment. How it is used what the user did while on the drug. intoxication that impairs the actions of drug users and increases the danger to themselves and others. Overdose that causes the user to stop breathing. Effects on relationships with friends and family. A system for collecting data on drug-related deaths and emergency room visits at some. Dawn collects data on improper use of legal prescription and over-the-counter drugs as well as illicit drugs. Alcohol is reported only in combination with other drugs. Drug-alcohol and drug-drug combinations are very common. Er visits: cocaine, alcohol-in-combination, marijuana, prescription opioids, benzodiazepines. Deaths: prescription opioids (not heroin, cocaine, alcohol-in-combination, benzodiazepines, methadone.
