The Effects of Opioids on Your Body
April 25, 2018 11:31 pm Leave your thoughtsWith an increasingly ubiquitous opioid crisis plaguing communities across the nation, local law enforcement and public health agencies are taking more steps to make sure people know the brutal effects opioids can have on the body. Many times people associate opioids with illegal drugs like heroin. But in fact, these potent and dangerous drugs are quite often used for legal medical purposes—you may even have some of them in your medicine cabinet at home. In 2012 alone, there were 259 million prescriptions written in the United States for opioid painkillers, such as OxyContin, Vicodin and Opana. Addiction numbers for heroin... View Article