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by Nick Bergo, Zach Roesler, Dalton Scheiner, and Sarah Cantor
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Substance abuse is the improper use of
medicinal substances for personal addiction or
the experience
Using a prescribed drug without a prescription
Medicinal substance examples: Medical
Marijuana, Alcohol, Morphine, Tobacco,
Cocaine, Heroin, and other hallucinogens
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This issue is very common in todays world
It promotes the question of liability in the
patient of the drug issued
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Everyone using it and their families
Pharmacies
Communities
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Medicinal substances greatly help the user in
times of discomfort and other medical
procedures/issues and should continue to be
moderated
Medicinal privileges should be taken away from
past abusers
Certain medicinal substances should be banned
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Michael Jackson,
the famous singer
and dancer died as
a result to
substance abuse
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His lack of sleep triggered the use of a
powerful anesthetic called propofol
He had such a bad problem that he actually
wanted more of it, which led to his
addiction
Even beforehand Michael had many drug
addictions
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The death of Michael Jackson brings up the
ethical issue of whether his doctor should of
kept giving him the drug that contributed to
his cardiac arrest
This brought much controversy to his doctor
and whether or not to convict him of
murdering Michael
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Tries to Save Son From
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Angela Brown, a Minnesota mom, searched for a
way to end her sons chronic pain
Trey Brown was a victim to a baseball accident
causing bleeding in an area of his brain the size of
a golf ball
after he woke from the medically induced coma,
his mother said, The old Trey was gone
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Due to her sons chronic pain, Angela went to
colorado, and got her son cannabis oil in a
bottle that finally got rid of the pain
Treys teacher found out What he was using
and the word spread around
The Sheriffs Department confiscated the oil
and county prosecutors charged her with child
endangerment and requiring child protection
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This relates to bioethics because Angela followed
her instinct to make her son feel better
She bought cannabis oil even though she knew it
was illegal
The conviction of Angela will rely on ethics, with
disregards to the fact that medical marijuana will
be legal in Minnesota next year
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1. If you knew that your patient was abusing the drug
that they required, would you still give it to them?
2. If you were Michael Jacksons doctor, would you
supply him his insomnia drug even if you knew that
he abused drugs in the past?
3. If your child was in need of medical substances
would you do the same as Angela?
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http://www.bioethics.org.au/Resources/Resource%
20Topics/Substance%20Abuse.html
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/27/showbiz/michael-jackson-death-
trial/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2512469/No-I-didnt-kill-
Michael-He-did--massive-overdose-using-stash-What-really-happened-
night-Jackson-died-Dr-Conrad-Murray-doctor-jailed-death-King-Pop.
html
https://www.google.com/imghp?gws_rd=ssl
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/medical-marijuana-laws-in-
minnesota-could-land-mom-in-jail-for-2-years/

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