![]() ![]() ![]() It is typically used to treat patients with severe pain. Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opiate similar to but more potent than morphine. According to the Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigative Unit there have been three heroin related deaths in Carroll County due to heroin laced with the drug fentanyl. Heroin use in Carroll County is on the rise. Physical dependence, suppression of pain, euphoria, depressed respiratory rate, clouded mental functioning, nausea and vomiting (source: NIDA) Withdrawal effects include restlessness, muscle and bone pain, insomnia, diarrhea and vomiting, cold flashes, kicking movements and a severe craving for the drug (source: NIDA) “H”, Big daddy, Brown sugar, Smack, Horse, Downtown and Mud The color of Heroin can be different due to cutting agents used. Heroin is a white or brownish powder that also can be made into a black sticky substance known as “black tar”. The price of heroin on the street is approximately $120.00 per gram and $75.00 for a half a gram. As pain killers are becoming harder to find, more users are moving to the next available product which is heroin. One of the cutting agents being used today is “Fentanyl” which has been recently linked to numerous deaths in Carroll County and Pennsylvania (source: Carroll County Sheriff’s Office). ![]() Heroin at the street level is “cut” with a variety of substances, leading to a variation of purity (source: DEA). Research quickly showed that heroin was more addictive than morphine and as a result it was listed as a schedule I drug by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which makes it an illegal drug in the U.S. Heroin is a narcotic derived from the opium poppy that was originally developed as substitute for morphine in an effort to deal with morphine’s addiction problem. ![]()
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