The flow of painkillers onto the Houston streets has been choked off by the DEA, driving up prices. But we're flooded with cheaper and more abundant heroin, so users are making the easy decision to switch over, more and more often.
It’s a parent’s worst nightmare that happens all too often: getting a call from the police, or a hospital, saying that your child has overdosed on drugs. For many parents and education professionals, drug tests are an important tool in their arsenal to combat the problem of drug abuse in school.
Introducing a narcotic that actually eats your flesh. Desomorphine, street name krokodil, is a freakish synthetic opiod right out of a horror movie. Although relatively new in the U.S., this drug has been destroying lives abroad for years, mostly in Russia, where it kills an estimated 30,000 people a year.
What Is Methadone? Sometimes labeled as a dangerous narcotic, Methadone is actually an opioid pain reliever, similar to morphine. When taken legally, Methadone is perscribed to people addicted to heroin or other harsh narcotics to relieve the "high" associated with addiction, and thus the physical and psychological pain that comes with it.