A Call to Action – Addressing the Opioid Crisis

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A Call to Action - Addressing the Opioid Crisis

Course Outline

 

 

• Current Statistical Data
  • Up to date state and national numbers commonly not available to the public
  • Statistics on opioid use, associated death rates and law enforcement

 

• Risk Factors
  • Addiction rates based on prescription length of time and number of pills
  • Mental Health’s role in addiction
  • Societal influences on addiction
  • COVID-19 and social unrest’s influence on what may be a lost generation

 

• Clinical Effects of Opioids
  • Mechanism of actions
  • Opioid receptors in the body
  • Effects on body systems

 

• Biochemistry of Feel Good Chemicals
  • Evolutionary description and function of naturally produced chemicals
  • Cortisol’s catastrophic role in chemical disruption
  • Relationship of chemicals made vs chemicals taken

 

• Historical Perspective of how the Crisis Evolved
  • Pharma corruption
  • Government corruption and mis-steps
  • VA Complicit
  • Physicians Complicit

 

• The Path to Overdose Deaths
  • Over prescribed opioids
  • Tolerance vs dependence vs addiction
  • Introduction of Fentanyl and Carfentanil

 

• Awareness, Prevention and Treatment
  • Awareness – public, medicine and legislators
  • Prevention – upstream strategies
  • Treatment – pre-medication, pre-addiction and during addiction

 

•  Chiropractic & Integrative Medicine’s Role
  • All modalities to the rescue
  • My personal fight and experience with medicine, government and Hollywood
  • Crisis winning strategies – It Takes a Village