Opioids: Pain Relief, Grief, and Purdue

• Essay writing
• 2 pages
  • 1 double-spaced page = 300 words
  • 1 slide = 150 words
  • 60 minutes – 300 words
• Behavioral Psychology
• Formatting style-APA
• Use appropriate sources,no specific sources were provided
• Dear writer, the main topic is positive organizational behavior.
  You are to write on HISTORY OF OPIOIDS AND MEDICAL USE
  Task overview:
  The human experience contains both joy and pain, and physical forms of the latter have many causes, from disease to trauma. Since the 1800s humans have been treating pain with opioids, a class of very powerful painkillers extracted and created from the opium poppy, such as heroin, morphine, and codeine. To provide a sense of the long history and use of opioids, it is interesting to note the Bayer Company manufactured heroin for commercial sale in 1898. One of the major uses at the time was as a cough suppressant, and not just for pain relief. The addictive properties became well known by the 1920s and the sale of heroin was banned. World War II was a turning point in opioid use. The scale of the war resulted in enormous numbers of injuries and soldiers who suffered from both acute and chronic pain, but physicians then had a limited arsenal with which to treat such conditions. Oxycodone, manufactured from a chemical in opium, was one of the drugs used in what was then the early days of what we now refer to as pain management. New drugs entered the market in the 1970s, like Percodan (oxycodone and aspirin) and Percocet (oxycodone and acetaminophen), but most physicians were taught to avoid prescribing such highly addictive medications to patients.
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