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Project 1 No Pulse Heart Notes:

It has been collected that as many as five million Americans suffer some form of heart failure, but only about 2,000 hearts a year become available for transplant. Because your heart has to beat for as long as you live without ever taking a rest, a strong alternative has to be made. Manufacturing a metal and plastic heart capable of beating that way for more than about 18 months has so far proved impossible, but the Jarvik-7—the first machine to replace a human heart,was produced in 1982. A transplantable heart is hard to find because it has to come from a person who is in good health and also dead. Cars have become safer and new laws involving seatbelets and helmets have decreased the number of available hearts.A trubine was invented like the one Cohn used, and has been running continuously in a lab for eight years and shows no sign of wearing out. One doctor used his hand to keep a patient alive and was inspired to make something that people can "pull off the shelf". Wampler then patented a device to move blood through the body, without a pulse, using an Archimedes’ screw. A magnet was alo used to power this device. The most foreseeable problem with using an Archimedes’ screw to move blood, was damaging the blood itself. It is likely that the turbine would destroy the red blood cells but it turned out that the turbine did no damage to the blood of the calve, Frazier thought because it shot the blood cells through so fast.The machine seemed to be a bridge between transplants but a central American gentlemen had a machine put in to assist his ventricles. He was then confused that he was asked to return to the hospital. They suprisingly found that the machine had been pumping his blood with no faults and that he had no pulse. A mother of two in upstate new york had a heartmate put in, just like Meeko. Both of their hearts were removed and the Heartmate was doing the job of their heart just fine. She had to carry around a backpack with a battery the size of a cassette tape, but could live her life basically the same as before. In the next 5 years these doctors dreams are to have a device that can be bbought off the shelf and easily put in to save 100,000 lives per year. This is a magnificent discovery and purely genious invention.

Project Two: Fetal Pig Dissection (Hannah Black, John Besser, Natalie Fagan) [|https://docs.google.com/a/npsdnj.org/presentation/d/1evWHuhs7lMMmpO0pz2paxqupzk3kzZ8ZkhqEXzk7GVE/edit#slide=id.gd572ca72_024]

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Project 3: Opiate Addiction Treatment (Articles)

1st article: A Multi Pronged Approach

Ryan, a 32 year old man who lives in Sussex County New Jersey dealt with addiction recently in this treatment article. It is one of many success stories that came out of the drug court program that we talked about in our judges essays. He has been a recovering addict for about two years, has found a job he enjoys, and is living with his wife and children again. As far as his treatment goes, he will soon be moving into the final phase of the program. Treatment can be done in several ways at long-term residential facilities or out-patient facilities, but most of them includes detoxification, counseling, support meetings and prescription medications sometimes. There are several agencies in Sussex County, including the Center for Prevention and Counseling, that can help addicts like Ryan find treatment they need. Rachel Wallace, a clinical supervisor for the Center for Prevention and Counseling, said "Sometimes we see people so progressed in their addiction and there is a revolving door in and out of jails because of addiction, but if we could grab onto them earlier in treatment, it would make such a difference." In our in class essays, this was an important point I used. If addicts were treated early, jail wouldnt be there only option. In treatment, addicts are able to learn skills to cope with both good and bad life events without turning to drugs. For example, Ryan has since learned emotional skills so that if another death in his family occurred, he would be better prepared to cope instead of turning to drugs because of depression. http://www.njherald.com/story/22616187/the-aftermath-of-addiction

2nd Article: Treating Addicts with Medicine, Respect http://bangordailynews.com/2013/06/03/opinion/editorials/treating-addicts-with-medicine-respect/ In this aricle, a Maine, Rep. Lawrence Lockman, R-Amherst, tried to prohibit coverage under MaineCare for certain treatments for people suffering from drug addictions. But, the legislative Committee on Health and Human Services voted that the bill should not pass and the legislation agreed. Some Maine lawmakers are still arguing over whether to call addiction a “disease.” Technically, if it’s not considered a disease, the state doesnt have o hold the responsibilty of treating it, because patients simply can decide to no longer be addicted. There is certainly no research to back up the effectiveness of ending health insurance coverage for low-income patients’ methadone treatments for their addiction, and like we learned in class, that will certainly not help. Dr. Mark Publicker, president of the Northern New England Society of Addiction Medicine said how "Opiate addiction doesn’t remit by itself. Decreasing access to one opiate does not resolve the problem of opiate addiction. Opiate addiction worsens. Opiate addiction spreads. Opiate addiction can only be affected by increased access to opiate treatment”. The duration and type of treatment for opiate addiction should be determined by the patient’s history and the severity of the drug addiction, not by arbitrary limits set in law. 