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ANTH 208: Medical Anthropology Applied Medical Anthropology Essay For the Applied Medical Anthropology (AMA) Essay, students will research a current event and analyze it (explain and propose solutions) based on their knowledge of medical anthropology. The AMA Essay is worth 70 points. Project Goals: 1. To encourage students to explore course content and find their relevance outside of the classroom. 2. To encourage students to apply anthropological concepts to understanding issues of health and healing. 3. To demonstrate an appropriate format for anthropological writing. Project Details: 1. Topic: You should pick a relevant current event or issue from within the last five years. Ideally, topic will be a “problem” that has potential solutions. Topic should be related to health and healing, as defined in this course. You might consider looking at headlines from reputable news sources. 2. Research (Context): This project requires a small amount of research. Students should find three academic, peer reviewed sources (journal articles or books) that relate, provide context, and help explain your topic. All of these sources should be written by medical anthropologists and provide ethnographic evidence that helps you make sense of your topic. You may consult, and should cite, reputable web sites (such as WHO or CDC) but these will not count toward your sources. You are not permitted to use Wikipedia or any other online encyclopedia or dictionary. See Blackboard for help finding medical anthropology sources. 3. Analysis (Explain and Propose Solutions): Your paper must include a section where you analyze your topic, explain it using medical anthropology terms and course content, and propose solutions based on your knowledge of medical anthropology. You should draw upon course content but also use research from the literature you have read. Make sure to define your terms as you write. 4. Paper Students will submit a finely written paper, the culmination of their project. Papers should be 45 pages, double-spaced, Times New Roman 12-pt font, 1 inch margins. You should include a title page and a works cited page (these do not count toward your page totals). See below for paper format. WORTH: 70 points. DUE: see syllabus. AMA Essay Format: 1. INTRODUCTION: briefly introduce your topic, any general background, and briefly discuss how you will analyze your topic and the solutions you will present. As with all introductions, you should start with the most general background and move to the most specific: your specific thesis sentence. The thesis sentence should include your specific topic and the main points (your explanation and solutions) that you will address in more detail below. 1-2 paragraphs. 2. CONTEXT: describe your topic in detail (who, what, where, when). Use the research you have done to provide background context, history, and similar or related events, issues, or problems. This should be descriptive, not analytic (not the why component: that is the next section). About 1 page. 3. ANALYSIS: EXPLANATION: explain your topic using medical anthropology terms and concepts. In other words, how would a medical anthropologist make sense of this? What is really going on? What issues are not adequately addressed by the existing media reports and/or solutions. 1-1.5 pages. 4. ANALYSIS: SOLUTIONS: Using your knowledge of medical anthropology, propose 2-3 solutions to your topic/problem. Provide clear details and justification on what needs to be done. When appropriate, cite sources that propose similar solutions. 5. CONCLUSION: summarize your work. Provide any additional information or questions that you would have liked to answer, but couldn’t. 1-2 paragraphs. 6. DON’T FORGET: to provide a TITLE PAGE and a WORKS CITED PAGE. In-text citations should follow a Chicago-style, parenthetical (author-date) format. See Blackboard CITATIONS AND HONOR CODE. General Essay Format: 1. Writing should use correct and appropriate spelling and grammar. 2. Paragraphs should not have a space between them, but the first line should be indented. 3. Paragraphs should be organized topically. All sentences should relate to the topic of each paragraph. 4. Limit your use of the first person. Occasionally using “I” or “me” is fine, but you should avoid consistent use of phrases like “I think” or “in my opinion.” As the paper’s author, I know you that you think what you are writing. 5. Make sure to incorporate an anthropological perspective. Your approach, interpretation, and explanation should not be ethnocentric. You should try to understand the problem from the perspective of the community in which it takes place.
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OPIOID OVERDOSE CRISIS

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Prescription opioids refer to medications that are synthetically like endorphins which are
synthesized by our bodies naturally to avert pain. Opioids are naturally found in the seed case of
the opium poppy plant. Opioid medication is made from plants, modified in the laboratory or be
fully man-made. They are therefore packaged as pills that are meant to relieve severe pain such
as cancer pain or injuries that are gotten as a result of sports activities. Even though it is not clear
to as whether they can heal long time pains, they are prescribed to perform this task. Opioids are
much safer when they are prescribed for a shorter time and they can combat pain in an effective
manner. Though, addiction and dependence are as yet potential dangers when taking opioids.
Dependence implies that you feel side effects of withdrawal when not taking the medication.
When these drugs are continually used, they lead to addiction, where you keep on using in spite
of negative outcomes.
Pharmaceutical companies had promised that use of opioid pain relievers has no effect of
addiction on the patients making healthcare providers to prescribe them at relatively greater
rates. The end results of these prescriptions have been a widespread misuse of the medication
and addiction. National Institute of Insurance addresses this crisis by coming up with a complete
initiative on opioid addiction and pain.
Around 115 Americans kick the bucket in the wake of overdosing on opioids.1 The abuse
of and dependence on opioids such as remedy pain relievers, heroin, and manufactured opioids,

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Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality (CBHSQ). 2015 National Survey on

Drug Use and Health: Detailed Tables. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health
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for example, fentanyl, is a genuine national emergency that influences general wellbeing and
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