ADVANCED P NR509 Week 7 Discussion- opioids addiction.

As an Advanced Practice Nurse, you will care for patients who are at risk for opioid abuse or addiction. Please research and present the incidence of opioid abuse specific to your geographic area and provide evidence of risk, relative risk, and odds ratio in relation to opioid abuse, and if specific risks have been identified for a specific population(s). Dr. Maurer & Class, Opioid abuse or addiction is a major public concern throughout the United States. The United States is the biggest consumer of opioids globally, accounting for nearly 100 percent of the world total for hydrocodone and 81 percent for oxycodone (Mclaughlin, 2016). The opioid overdose death continues to rise. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2016) has reported that an estimated 33,091 people died from opioids overdose in 2015 it has quadrupled since 1999. Growing number of people visit emergency due to nonmedical use of prescription opiates. The number of drug overdose death rate increased significantly in the Northeast and South reason including Maryland. The prevalence of heroin overdose death includes purity of heroin on the street, the period of detoxification which lowers the opioid tolerance, and availability of opioid agonist treatment (Schwartz et al., 2013). Opioids inclu