On the Street
What company marketed heroin as a safe and non-addictive cough suppressant (they also still make aspirin)
Bayer
Heroin, like opium and morphine is made from what plant?
the resin of poppy plants
About 1/3 of American's fighting in Vietnam tried what drug?
heroin
Fentanyl is more or less potent then morphine
50 to 100 times more potent then morphine
Methadone which is a drug to treat heroin and opioid addiction is also a long-acting opioid, true or false?
true
During the early 1920's a number of NY heroin addicts supported themselves by picking through industrial dumps for scraps of copper lead and other metals which they collected in a wagon and sold to a dealer. What name were these individuals given?
Junkie or Junkman
What hallucinogen do Native American use in a religious ceremony?
Peyote
Oxycontin
These 2 risk factors make people particularly vulnerable to prescription opioid abuse and overdose
1. obtaining overlapping prescriptions from multiple providers
2. taking high daily dosages of prescription pain relievers
3. having mental illness/hx of substance abuse
4. Living in rural areas and having low income
Name 2 long term effects of Heroin use
Insomnia, collapsed veins, damaged tissues in the nose, infection of the heart, abscesses, constipation/stomach cramping, liver and kidney disease, lunch complications, mental health disorders, sexual dysfunction (men), irregular menstrual cycles for women
What year did the Opioid epidemic begin (within 2 years).
2014