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Drug overdose is the lead cause of accidental death in the state of New Jersey. Opioids in two words: highly addictive. When taking opioid medications, the drug effects parts of the brain that cause pain and emotion. This then produces “the feel good, high feeling” in the brain, dopamine, causing you to have a sense of euphoria. The brain starts to become used to this feeling, making you need to take more of the drug, causing dependence, and before you know it: you are hooked. You are addicted.
We are in an opioid epidemic in the United States. More than two million Americans have either become dependent on prescription drugs/street drugs. Studies show that in 2016, there were more than 63,000 overdose deaths here in the U.S. 66.4% involving an opioid, meaning every single day an average of 115 people will die from an opioid overdose. 115 people. Every. Single. Day. Let that sink in….
Listed below are types of opioid drugs:
- Oxymorphone Hydrochloride
- Codeine
- Heroin
- Fentanyl
- Hydrocodone
- Oxycodone
- Morphine
- Mepedermine
- Hydromorphone
- Methadone
- Buprenorphine
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