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. 

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.

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.

Source: "Overdose Death Rates," CDC. 

Bath salts are synthetic stimulants, sold online, and convenience stores and “head shops” under various brand names. Learn more.

Other street names for oxycodone include “kicker,””OC,” “Ox,” “Roxy”, and “Perc.” Learn more about oxycodone.

Source: National Survey on Drug Use and Health

Source: National Survey on Drug Use and Health

"Among young adults aged 18 to 25 in 2018, 0.5 percent were past year heroin users. This percentage represents 157,000 young adults who used heroin in the past year."

Source: National Survey on Drug Use and Health 

Source: Center for Disease Control and Prevention (https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates)