Topic: Drug and Alcohol Addiction Crisis Submit a 1-2 page outline of your… Chosen Global Health Topic/Issue Rationale for the choice Rough outline of your topic and references found to date Following APA format I will attach a rough outline I created for a guide at the end , but the main instructions are key for the paper. Assignment Overview: The Global Health Paper provides an opportunity for students to extend their research on the “Letter to the Community Decision Maker” topic and learn about the global impact of the problem/issue. During the completion of this assignment, the student will consider the following questions: 1) What is the impact of the problem upon the larger community/world? 2) What is the extent of the problem? (Describe the statistics, incidence, and trends?) 3) What forces (external and internal) are at play in the growth of the problem? For example, does poverty play a role in escalating this problem? Is there a defined health disparity? 4) What actions are currently being taken to address the problem and are they working? 5) Are actions being taken to prevent the problem from occurring? If so, what levels of prevention are at play? If not, what improvements upon the levels of prevention should be considered?( Primary secondary and tetiary levels of prevention) 6) What are the roles of the Community Health nurse/Public Health Nurse? 7) What are the ethical considerations in solving the problems? 8) What other interventions would you propose to solve the problem? 9) How would you evaluate the effectiveness of your intervention(s)? Guidelines and Instructions: Expand the research on the topic previously selected for the “Letter to the Community Decision-Maker” to focus on a global perspective of the issue. The emphasis should not be local (state) or national (United States) information. Do not cut and paste content from your “Letter to the Community Decision-Maker. Submit a quality paper that comprehensively addresses the above guidelines. Do not write this paper in ‘first person’ The grade is worth 20%. Please consult the grading rubric. Submit pre-selected topic, list of expanded resources and a 1-2 page outline of what has been discovered globally to the Instructor for feedback. This summary is an ungraded assignment and is only meant to serve as a ‘check’ on progress. This final assignment has a SafeAssign requirement. Students are reminded to submit their work to SafeAssign prior to submitting a final assignment to the instructor. Students are expected to review the SafeAssign report and make revisions to their work before the final due date. Develop and type a 8-10 page document (APA format) with content and analysis, not including the title and reference page. All work should be submitted following APA guidelines. In addition to using scholarly nursing references, the following websites may be of interest to you for this Global Health Paper. Global Health.org CDC.gov Global Health Paper Outline I. Identifying the problem of Drug addiction is the initial step toward tackling the problem. A. Drug addiction rates is rising and becoming a burden globally II Extent of the problem A. CDC’s view of the rising problem. III. Internal and External Forces influencing addiction crisis. A. Environnent 1. Peer pressure 2. Exposure and early drug use 3. High level of neighborhood poverty and decay 4. Homelessness 5. Drug misuse by family B. Tolerance 1. Quantity of Drug use 2. Withdrawal care/ support 3. Relapse prevention. 4. Academic problems. 5. Psychological and physiological problem. IV. Actions taken to tackle the drug problem 1. Adequate education regarding drug addiction 2. Expand the distribution and education of Narcan use to counteract drug overdose. 3. Understand the mechanism behind the reasoning for drug use. 4. Address CDC’s foundation for health practitioners to address addiction crisis. 5. Implement prescriber drug monitoring 6. Encourage other guidelines to pain management. V. Levels of prevention. A. Primary prevention 1. Resilience 2. Environmental strategies designated to improve behavioral health B. Secondary 1.Prescribtion Drug misuse 2. Alcohol and illicit drug use. C Tertiary 1. Case identification 2. Treatment programs. a. CDC Global health b. Drug Overdose injury center c. Medically assisted therapy programs to reduce HIV among drug addicts. d. Stigma reduction VI. Role of the community health nurse. A. Education 1. Health choices and self determination 2. Positive temperament 3. Identifying the mechanism behind drug addiction 4. Intellectual ability, employment, and training 5. Collaboration between health agencies, schools and law enforcement to design and implement prevention programs. VII. Statistics Data. A. According to the CDC, in 2019, there were an estimated 81,000 deaths from opioid overdose B. in 2018 130 people died from opioid overdose daily accidents (Neville & Foley, 2020) C. 5% of the 191 million opioid prescriptions filled in 2017” At the same time, scientists mention that “up to 80% of the opioid pills prescribed by surgical care providers remain unused,” which creates the preconditions for access to opioids among people with overdose (Stolberg et al., 2019, p. 1). References Calcaterra, S. L., Bach, P., Chadi, A., Chadi, N., Kimmel, S. D., Morford, K. L., & Samet, J. H. (2019). Methadone matters: what the United States can learn from the global effort to treat opioid addiction. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 34(6), 1039-1042erences. Neville, K., & Foley, M. (2020). The economic impact of the opioid use disorder epidemic in America: Nurses’ call to action. Nursing Economic$, 38(1), 7-15. Stanhope, M., & Lancaster, J. (2020). Public health nursing: Population-centered health care in the community (10th ed.). St. Louis: Elsevier. Stulberg, J. J., Schäfer, W. L., Shallcross, M. L., Lambert, B. L., Huang, R., Holl, J. L., & Johnson, J. K. (2019). Evaluating the implementation and effectiveness of a multi-component intervention to reduce post-surgical opioid prescribing: study protocol of a mixed-methods design. BMJ Open, 9(6), 1-13.
