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Controversial Treatments and Legislative Change
MN506-3: Evaluate the implications of the effects of contemporary health policy on providers and consumers.
MN506-4: Assess the legislative and policy-making strategies specific to scope of practice and nursing roles that influence health care services and practice.
Choose a health care treatment option that is controversial and maybe costly. Describe the positive and negative benefits from the treatment, evidence of effectiveness, and the potential harm of a different treatment option.
- Choose a controversial health care treatment option. Describe the treatment.
- medical marijuana debate
- Compare and contrast the positive and negative benefits or harm of the controversial treatment.
- What strategies would you use to advocate for a legislative change in your state to influence insurance coverage for this treatment.
- Describe the required process for legislative change to occur in your state.
- Describe a strategies that you would you use at the local and state level to advocate for a legislative change in your state that would influence insurance coverage for this treatment.
- Provide an estimated timeline for your legislative change to occur. Use the steps describe in required process for legislative change for your state.
Note:
This is a fact-based Assignment that will not include your opinion.
This will require research and support for what is written.
The Assignment should be in your words after reading the scholarly and fact-based publications and have proper citations. There should be no quotations. The professor wants to hear your voice as a masters trained nurse.
The paper should have a minimum of seven citations and some of these should be case law or applicable statutes. NO citations before the year of (2015)
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Running head: CONTROVERSIAL TREATMENT
Controversial Treatment
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CONTROVERSIAL TREATMENT
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Introduction
One of the major controversial treatment policy is the medicinal marijuana debate
which has become a major topic of discussion in the medical fraternity. Despite the fact that
the debate over the potential of marijuana providing medicinal benefit has gained momentum,
some states have not legalized the use of marijuana. Besides, very few states and agencies
have consented to Medicinal Marijuana. On the other hand, the few who have legalized the
use of marijuana for medicinal purposes have recorded numerous adverse reactions and
challenges that pose complications and controversy over the medicinal marijuana use.
Although the main objective of using marijuana for the medicinal purpose is to offer
treatment to various complications, it should only be used when the traditional methods fail.
Controversial Treatment
Marijuana is one of the major drugs that has been abused and led to a global ban on its
possession and use. On the other hand, there is sufficient evidence showing that it can be used
to treat conditions such as heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes type II, sleep apnea, etc.
The states that have legalized marijuana use have also achieved their objectives of controlling
its use, sales and distribution (Chang, Stoll, Song, et al., 2014). On the other hand, the states
that have failed to legalize the substances have recorded the highest cases of its illegal use, its
adverse effects, and overall negative publicity. Thus, the debate surrounding the medical
marijuana use is a...