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Posted by natasha <\/p>\n
\n The opioid addiction is one that has grown so tremendously in the past 20 years. To find a solid root cause to this crisis is difficult as numerous factors can play in part to any addiction the opioid crisis is no different. Opioids are a found in the form of morphine, oxycodone\u2019s, Vicodin\u2019s and most opium-based medications. Opium comes from a poppy seed and plant cultivated. The opioids highjack the dopamine and finds a short cut to the brains reward system that leads to pleasure sensation. This provides a flooding in the nucleus accumbens. (GF, 2011) The main cause of the opioid crisis I feel is from the prescription drug abuse. Patients seeking pain relief, have been prescribed copious amounts of pain relievers, they then become addicted and many turns to heroin. The only way I feel we can curb the opioid addiction is if we educate on how to successfully withdraw from these addictions. The only way we can combat this epidemic is severe penalties for over prescribing doctors. If we can not stop the over prescribing, we must initiate a program and perform intervention for successful withdrawals for addicts. Ones that will not them selves be addictive.<\/p>\n \n
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