How the Use of Fentanyl Affects Society (Coursework Sample)
1) Choose a genuine debate topic—one that has multiple viable persuasive positions.
2) Contextualize the history of your debate topic (give relevant background, identify terms and key issues, etc.). This is the more expository part of the paper that will, in most cases, occur toward the beginning.
3) Take a clear persuasive position on your issue, and support your position with reasons and evidence backed by analytical commentary.
4) Identify and address/concede/refute the strongest argument(s) of the opposition.
You already have (hopefully) all or most of your research (yes, you can find and use new sources if needed), and you may use any writing that you did in the annotated bibliography if relevant. However, you have a new purpose (persuade/argue) and specific audience with this next assignment, so you will need to think about how to shape the evidence you have into an argument.
Audience: You must address your argument to a specific audience—one that is interested but not yet convinced of your claim, or one that is in opposition to your claim (you are not just “preaching to the choir” like so many news articles do).
Note: It’s easier to successfully convince a smaller group than everyone in the country! Your “intended audience” should be clear to you before you begin to write the essay.
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How the Use of Fentanyl Affects Society
Fentanyl also spelled as Fentanil, is from the opioid family and is considered the strongest form of opioid, mainly used to treat pain. With the help of other medications, Fentanyl is used for anesthesia. Fentanyl is considered to be a hundred times strong compared to any other form of opioid; morphine is an example of an opioid. Fentanyl has the same purpose as morphine, where it is used to successfully treat the pain of patients who come from surgery. Therefore, Fentanyl is a synthetic form of opioid but stronger than any normal opioid on the market, approximately fifty to a hundred more times (Pergolizzi et al. 45). The drug is prescribed by a physician but is used illegally sometimes. Fentanyl, amongst other synthetic opioids, is the most common drug in America, with a higher rate of abuse, leading to a significant number of deaths related to a drug overdose. An historical background on the opioid and how fentanyl is abused would help educate the general public and youths specifically on the current crisis of opioids in the country and negative impacts it has to people’s health and society as a whole.
Brief Historical Background of Fentanyl
Paul Janssen first designed fentanyl as a powerful anesthetic and analgesic opioid in the 1960s. During that time, Fentanyl was considered the fastest reactive opioid to be discovered. However, to date, Fentanyl remains the most powerful of all opioids. Since then, intravenous, transdermal, and trans-buccal fentanyl distribution has been devised, approved, and applied in surgical performances for anesthesia and managing severe chronic and cancer pains making the drug the most applied and used synthetic opioid in healthcare practices. According to Dai et al., from 1979 to 2016, the United States of America registered about 599,255 reported cases associated with a drug overdose. An indicator of the rapidly rising mortality rate. Mortality rates linked to fentanyl opioids have been greatly linked to youths and younger adults aged 20 to 40 years since 2013 (Dai et al. 4). Since 1979, Fentanyl has been manufactured in laboratories across the globe and sold as substitutes for heroin or mixed with other illegal drugs for example, cocaine leading to the significant overdose deaths linked to Fentanyl.
How Fentanyl is Used
Fentanyl is administered in shots where a portion is put on a patient's skin. However, the illegal use of the strong authentic opioid has risen, and its manufacture is
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