OPIATES

Narcotics and analgesics:Demerol, Oxycontin, Tylenol 3&4, Dilaudid (hydromorphone), Morphine, Codeine, Percocet, Methadone. Street names: smack, horse, junk, brown sugar, mud, big h, black tar. Effects: euphoria, drowsiness, impaired driving ability, reduced vision, relief of pain, constipation, decreased respiratory, addiction, coma. Dangers: malnutrition, infection, risks associated with unsterile and shared needles, reaction to contaminants, AIDS, hepatitis, death from overdose. Detection time: approx. 2 days.

Opioid Epidemic

Almost twice as many people died of opioid overdoses in 2018, then died of HIV at the height of the AIDS epidemic in1993.
Heroin laced with fentanyl main culprit
Fentanyl is 50-100 times stronger than morphine.
ICE stopped enough fentanyl at the border in 2018, to kill every person in the U.S., twice over.