scholarly journals Good Samaritan laws and overdose mortality in the United States in the fentanyl era

2021 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
pp. 103294
Author(s):  
Leah Hamilton ◽  
Corey S. Davis ◽  
Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz ◽  
William Ponicki ◽  
Magdalena Cerdá
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Good Samaritan ◽  
Overdose Mortality ◽  
Good Samaritan Laws

scholarly journals Toward Tort Liability for Bad Samaritans

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen Linden
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Tort Liability ◽  
Good Samaritan ◽  
Moral Stature ◽  
The Right ◽  
Do The Right Thing ◽  
Good Samaritan Laws

Good Samaritan laws are common throughout Canada and the United States. The rationalefor the development of Good Samaritans law has been that the benefit of immunity for GoodSamaritans is more altruistic than the punishment of liability for Bad Samaritans. However,our tort law’s declaration that one need not assist one in danger weakens the moral statureof our law. Our law supports those who do the right thing and denounces those who do thewrong thing. The intrusiveness of liability for bystanders is usually argued against BadSamaritan laws. However potential liability is rare; the moral stature of our law is worththe effort to resolve this issue.

Henry R. Luce and the Security Ethos

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
William O. Walker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cold War ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Society ◽  
Free World ◽  
Good Samaritan ◽  
American Century ◽  
Concrete Form ◽  
The World ◽  
The Cold War

The introduction shows how Henry R. Luce in his 1941 essay, “The American Century,” gave concrete form to the security ethos: the belief that, for its own safety, the United States should provide political and economic leadership and act as the indispensable Good Samaritan around the world. For Luce, longstanding fear of foreigners was unacceptable. The United States should heed a providential calling to serve as a beacon of hope for peoples everywhere. In practical terms, especially after 1945 as the Cold War took hold, U.S. officials acted to create a broadly-based free-world society in which modernization was possible. Success in this undertaking depended on whether they could establish credibility with those Washington presumed to lead.

scholarly journals Cocaine use and overdose mortality in the United States: Evidence from two national data sources, 2002–2018

2020 ◽  
Vol 214 ◽  
pp. 108148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Cano ◽  
Sehun Oh ◽  
Christopher P. Salas-Wright ◽  
Michael G. Vaughn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
National Data ◽  
Cocaine Use ◽  
Overdose Mortality

scholarly journals China’s diplomacy and changing the COVID-19 narrative

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-258
Author(s):  
Raj Verma
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Good Samaritan ◽  
Regime Stability ◽  
Global Power ◽  
The World ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

The world has declared COVID-19 (a disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus or novel coronavirus) to be a pandemic. China has been chastised by various countries, especially the United States, for suppressing information and not taking necessary measures which could have helped in controlling the spread of and/or eradicating the disease in the earlier stages. Consequently, China has undertaken numerous measures to change the COVID-19 narrative and disassociate itself from COVID-19. It launched a campaign to question the origins of SARS-CoV-2, blamed the United States for spreading COVID-19, claimed victory in combating COVID-19 domestically, and provided aid (“mask diplomacy”) to countries. These actions betray China’s concern about its image. The country wants to portray itself as a Good Samaritan, a responsible and reliable partner, and an essential global power. Additionally, China has grave concerns about regime stability and survival. President Xi’s legitimacy is built on technocratic competence. The outbreak has the potential to seriously dent his personal legacy.

Opioid Overdose Education, Prevention, and Management (DRAFT)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernd Wollschlaeger
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Opioid Use Disorder ◽  
Opioid Overdose ◽  
Opioid Use ◽  
Death Rates ◽  
Overdose Prevention ◽  
Overdose Death ◽  
Good Samaritan ◽  
Opioid Deaths ◽  
Good Samaritan Laws

In reviewing the elements of opioid overdose education, prevention, and management, this chapter focuses particularly on practical interventions that are available and deserve advocacy; e.g., provision of naloxone to those with opioid use disorder and to possible first responders. It moves from a discussion of the epidemiology of opioid deaths to the more individual topic of patient risk for overdose. Prophylactic interventions in the form of education of the patient’s family and friends, and agreements for treatment with informed consent are described. There follows a discussion of management of the opioid poisoning itself, including use/distribution of naloxone injection. Two figures are included: drug overdose death rates in the United States (2014); a map describing the current states with naloxone or “good Samaritan” laws impacting opioid overdose management. A text box with resources includes directions for initiation of community overdose prevention and intervention schemes.

A Brief History of Catholic Bioethics

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (7) ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
Louise A. Mitchell ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
The United States ◽  
Good Samaritan ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Catholic Health Care ◽  
History Of ◽  
Catholic Hospital ◽  
The Church

The foundations of modern Catholic bioethics were laid with the teachings of Christ, especially in the example He set as the Divine Physician and through the parable of the Good Samaritan. The Church thus cared for the sick and built hospitals for two thousand years before adopting a definite bioethical focus. Equally important for Catholic bioethics, especially in clinical practice, was the development of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services. They are based on the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Hospitals, which were first published by the Catholic Hospital Association in 1948, revised in 1955, and revised and adopted by the United States Catholic Conference in 1971. Secular bioethics split from theology and metaphysics in favor of the rationalism and humanism which developed out of Enlightenment thought, whereas Catholic bioethics continued its own development, keeping both its theological and its metaphysical roots.

scholarly journals Prevalent Misconceptions About Opioid Use Disorders in the United States Produce Failed Policy and Public Health Responses

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 546-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Heimer ◽  
Kathryn Hawk ◽  
Sten H Vermund
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
People Who Use Drugs ◽  
Opioid Overdose ◽  
Virus Infections ◽  
Opioid Use ◽  
Illicit Markets ◽  
Oral Consumption ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Overdose Mortality

Abstract The current opioid crisis in the United States has emerged from higher demand for and prescribing of opioids as chronic pain medication, leading to massive diversion into illicit markets. A peculiar tragedy is that many health professionals prescribed opioids in a misguided response to legitimate concerns that pain was undertreated. The crisis grew not only from overprescribing, but also from other sources, including insufficient research into nonopioid pain management, ethical lapses in corporate marketing, historical stigmas directed against people who use drugs, and failures to deploy evidence-based therapies for opioid addiction and to comprehend the limitations of supply-side regulatory approaches. Restricting opioid prescribing perversely accelerated narco-trafficking of heroin and fentanyl with consequent increases in opioid overdose mortality As injection replaced oral consumption, outbreaks of hepatitis B and C virus and human immunodeficiency virus infections have resulted. This viewpoint explores the origins of the crisis and directions needed for effective mitigation.

Introduction to Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Organization

1985 ◽  
Vol 1 (S1) ◽  
pp. 109-110
Author(s):  
Ronald D. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Emergency Medical Services ◽  
New World ◽  
Prehospital Care ◽  
The United States ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
Concerted Effort ◽  
Good Samaritan ◽  
The Past ◽  
Emergency Medical

Experience and history have taught us that much can be done for the sick and injured before such patients reach the hospital. From the legacy of the Good Samaritan to the modern day organization of emergency medical services, the immediate care of those stricken has undergone significant change in both philosophy and practice. While many prehospital care organizations with roots established deeply in the past still flourish, modern emergency care, in the new world at least, has developed rapidly only over the past ten years.In the United States, a concerted effort to improve the care of the wounded during the Civil War led to the introduction of the “flying ambulances” used earlier by Napoleon's Chief Surgeon, Larrey. Americans made significant contributions to acute care with the work of such noted men as Crile, with his form of external pneumatic counterpressure; Kouwenhoven, Knickerbocker and Jude at lohns Hopkins; Beck and the first reported defibrillation in a patient; Safar and his co-workers with the rediscovery of mouth-to-mouth; and many others.

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