Questions and credible sources required. I just need these statistics incorporated into my essay. I have a rough draft attached which is pretty much a basic outline. The following must be written. Can be in a separate document or merged with the current rough draft (Preferred).
I think that you might find the following links helpful for you. This will look huge, but it gives you quicker access to the information that you want to write about. You do not need to write 2 pages on each point remember.
Dr. Songer
Here are some more comments on the paper that you are writing regarding opioids as a public health and epidemiology issue should include pieces from the different principles of the course. The goal is for the paper to include these pieces as a review of the importance of this issue.
Recommended concepts to include in the paper include;
person, place and time patterns
a) discuss how opioid-related deaths have changed over time (years)
b) discuss how opioid-related deaths differ by age and how they differ by race. See data from WISQARS at the CDC https://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate.html
See: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db394-H.pdf
c) discuss how different types of opioids and their involvement in deaths has changed over time. See: https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/deaths/index.html and https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7006a4.htm?s_cid=mm7006a4_w
discussion of how the increase in the last 20 years is related to a change in the host, the agent, and the environment.
talk about what has changed to lead to more drug use and deaths. How did the behavior of individuals change in the population? How did the environment change, related to using prescription drug opioids, and then the introduction of synthetic opioids?
the role of hepatitis C infection in injection drug users. Talk about how hepatitis C is related to injection drug use, and provide statistics on how many persons are likely to have hepatitis C due to injection drug use. See: https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/hcv/index.htm,https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/hcv/cfaq.htm#overview,https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmp1716871
global patterns of opioid mortality. Talk about how opioid overdose deaths in the USA compare to overdose deaths in other countries. See: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/opioid-overdose, Also, see the attached article
surveillance related to overdose and what public health is doing about this issue. See: https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/foa/state-opioid-mm.html, and https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/pdf/CDC-NCIPC-ESOOSReport-508.pdf, and https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/pdf/data/CDC_ESOOS_Julyl2019_508.pdf
screening for hepatitis C and the role of treatment for hepatitis C in injection drug users. See https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/rr/rr6902a1.htm
Talk about the results of cohort studies of injection drug users and what happens to them over time in terms of mortality. The emphasis here is that research is done in a cohort study to identify what happens to injection drug users over time, and what places some persons who inject drugs at higher risk for death. See attached paper.
Talk about prevention programs related to the issue (prescription drug monitoring programs, naloxone, narcan, etc.). See https://www.cdc.gov/opioids/overdoseprevention/index.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fdrugoverdose%2Fprevention%2Findex.html
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