Illicit Subs
This anticholinergic drug has been reported in crimes due to its ability to cause confusion, dissociation, and impaired memory formation.
What is scopolamine (Devil’s Breath)?
More than ______ million Americans battle addiction?
What is more than 48 million.
28.9 alcohol
27.2 illicit subs
This legal depressant alters GABA and glutamate activity and is associated with the highest overall social harm.
➡️ Answer: What is alcohol?
This substance is strongly associated with fatty liver disease, cirrhosis, and esophageal varices after prolonged use.
➡️ Answer: What is alcohol?
The average billed insurance charge for patients with an opioid use disorder?
What is 78,045, compared to 9,992 for other drugs.
Cathinone's, also known as “________” this class of synthetic stimulants acts on dopamine and norepinephrine systems and can cause excited delirium.
What are Bath Salts?
More than 150 people a day die form this type of overdose?
what is opioid overdose.
This prescription stimulant used for ADHD has high misuse potential when crushed or taken orally in excess.
➡️ Answer: What is Adderall (amphetamine)?
Severe dental decay, jaw infections, and chronic skin picking are commonly seen with long-term use of this stimulant.
➡️ Answer: What is methamphetamine?
Research estimates that the lifetime cost of untreated substance use disorder per individual (including healthcare, legal costs, and lost productivity) can exceed this amount.
What is over $1 million?
This homemade opioid from Eastern Europe is known for causing severe tissue necrosis and shortened life expectancy.
➡️ Answer: What is krokodil (desomorphine)?
People with an alcohol use disorder are ______ times more likely to develop a gambling addiction.
What is 23 X more likely or 2,300 %
Chronic use of this legal substance can worsen anxiety, sleep disturbance, and cardiovascular symptoms.
➡️ Answer: What is caffeine?
Collapsed veins, infective endocarditis, and increased risk of blood-borne infections are linked to use of this drug class.
➡️ Answer: What are injectable opioids (e.g., heroin)?
A person spending $40 per day on substances will spend approximately this amount over five years—not including medical, legal, or employment-related costs.
What is about $73,000?
This drug, associated with South Africa, is often a mixture of heroin, cannabis, HIV medications, toxic additives and is linked to rapid physical decline.
➡️ Answer: What is wonga (nyaope)?
560 people begin using this substance every day.
What is Methamphetamine.
This legal substance increases dopamine release but also reinforces addiction through rapid delivery to the brain.
➡️ Answer: What is nicotine?
Bladder inflammation, ulceration, and long-term urinary tract damage are associated with repeated use of this dissociative anesthetic.
➡️ Answer: What is ketamine?
In the United States, alcohol sales generate approximately this amount in revenue each year for producers, distributors, and retailers.
What is roughly $250–300 billion annually?
This psychedelic phenethylamine, sometimes mistaken for MDMA, has been linked to unpredictable stimulant and hallucinogenic effects.
➡️ Answer: What is NBOMe?
NBOMes are also referred to as a New Psychoactive Substances because they are designed to mimic or produce similar effects to common illicit drugs such as the so-called ‘classical psychedelics’ like mescaline or LSD.1 NBOMes can be in the form of blotting paper (similar to LSD) with images and logos from popular culture, a clear liquid, a white powder, or a pill.3, 4
On average ________ amount of people try drugs for the first time each day?
27,000
This prescribed drug class is commonly involved in overdose deaths when combined with opioids or alcohol.
➡️ Answer: What are benzodiazepines?
Severe skin ulcers, necrosis, and non-healing wounds have been increasingly associated with this non-opioid sedative found in the illicit supply.
➡️ Answer: What is xylazine (tranq)?
Despite massive alcohol profits, the estimated total annual cost of alcohol use to U.S. society (including healthcare, lost productivity, and criminal justice) is approximately this amount.
What is about $250 billion per year?