Drug Specifics and Information

What is Painkiller Addiction?

Painkillers are substances that provide temporary relief from pain without causing a loss of consciousness.  There are two main categories of painkillers: narcotic and non-narcotic.

What are Opiates?

Opiates are drugs that are commonly used today to produce euphoric highs. Some of the generic names for opiates include smack, horse, junk, drug store heroin, black tar, white lady, china white, gumball, george smack and Him.

What is Methadone?

Methadone is something that has been used for treatment of narcotic withdrawal and dependence. It has been used for a long time, and it is usually used under a physicians’s guidance.

Methadone Facts

An opiod analgesic used by people trying to break addiction to opiates, particularly heroin.

Meth

The drug is made easily in underground laboratories with relatively inexpensive over-the-counter ingredients. These factors combine to make methamphetamine a drug with high potential for widespread abuse.

Meth / Methamphetamines

Meth, also known as Methamphetamines, is an amphetamine derivative used in the form of hydrochloride and is used as a stimulant to the nervous system. 

What is Marijuana?

Marijuana is known as the single most commonly abused illicit drug in the United States. 

Dangers and Effects of Ketamine

Ketamine, also known as Special K, Vitamin K or Cat Valiums, is an injected analgesic most commonly used by veterinarians on large animals. 

Heroin Facts

According to the 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an estimated 3.7 million people had used heroin at some time in their lives.

History of Cocaine

Cocaine derives from the leaves of the Erythroxylan Coca plant which can be found in the eastern slopes of the Andes in South America.

Crack Cocaine

Cocaine is a powerfully addictive drug of abuse. Once having tried cocaine, an individual cannot predict or control the extent to which he or she will continue to use the drug.

LSD

LSD also known as Acid, Boomers, Yellow Sunshines is a powerful hallucinogen that is taken orally, usually on squares of blotter paper, sugar cubes, or pills that have absorbed the liquid drug.