Opioid addiction is devastating communities throughout the nation. How much do you know about the drug class?
- False
- True
U-47700, nicknamed “U4,” “pink,” or “pinky,” is a highly potent synthetic opioid that looks like a white or light pink powder. A lot of times, it is often either sold in baggies or pressed into pills to look like legal painkillers. Abuse of this drug is similar to heroin, and prescription and designer opioids. Learn more.
- False
- True
Prescribed as Dilaudid®, it is used as a pain reliever. Hydromorphone is 2-8x more potent than morphine but shorter duration and greater sedation. Learn more.
- 50
- 25
- 100
Fentanyl, the powerful synthetic opioid, is added to heroin to increase its potency, or be disguised as highly potent heroin. Many users believe that they are purchasing heroin and actually don’t know that they are purchasing fentanyl – which often results in overdose deaths. Learn more.
- 25 percent
- 50 percent
- 100 percent
- over 500 percent
Source: "Overdose Death Rates," CDC.
- Synthetic opioids
- Opioids
- Neither
Bath salts are synthetic stimulants, sold online, and convenience stores and “head shops” under various brand names. Learn more.
- Fentanyl
- bath salts
- Oxycodone
Other street names for oxycodone include “kicker,””OC,” “Ox,” “Roxy”, and “Perc.” Learn more about oxycodone.
- 500,000
- 1.2 million
- 11 million
- 881,000
- 1 million
- 4 million
- 5 million
- 2.5 million
- 12 to 17
- 26 and older
- 18 to 25
- 33,225
- 10,389
- 42,249
