Learn how to stay safe from fake medications.





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*Gain Knowledge and Stay Safe*

You play a vital role in educating your friends, family, and colleagues on how to make healthy decisions. This includes raising awareness of the dangers of taking counterfeit medications.

Criminal drug networks are flooding the United States with fake pills containing lethal substances like fentanyl. 2024 DEA laboratory testing indicated that 5 out of 10 pills tested contain a potentially deadly dose of fentanyl. Even small amounts (2mg) of fentanyl, equivalent to a pencil tip, can be deadly.

Drug traffickers use pill presses to create these deadly counterfeit medications. By imprinting markings and logos onto pills, they produce products that look like legitimate prescription medication. The only safe medications are ones prescribed by a trusted medical professional and dispensed by a licensed pharmacist. Do not trust medications from unknown sources.

*About Counterfeit Drugs* [ [link removed] ]


To learn more about drugs and their reactions, keep reading. Knowing what drugs look like and how they affect the body can help keep you safe. You can also* check out our social media [ [link removed] ]**​ *for more drug facts. 

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*Drug Facts of the Week*
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Ketamine [ [link removed] ]*

This dissociative anesthetic is commercially produced for anesthetics and anti-depressants. It is often stolen from veterinary clinics or smuggled from Mexico.

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*Khat* [ [link removed] ]

Two active ingredients, cathine and cathinone, can cause long-term users to experience delusions, increased heart rate, loss of appetite, and more.

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*Kratom [ [link removed] ]*

Kratom leaves are most often smoked, brewed into tea, or placed into gel capsules. Depending on the dosage, consumption can produce both stimulant and sedative effects.

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*LSD [ [link removed] ]*

LSD is most often added to absorbent blotter paper and divided into square dosage units.

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*Methadone [ [link removed] ]*

German scientists synthesized methadone during World War II because of a shortage of morphine.

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*Methamphetamine [ [link removed] ]*

Taken as a powder, pill, smoked, snorted, or injected, high doses can cause convulsions, cardiovascular collapse, stroke, or death.

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*Morphine* [ [link removed] ]

While very effective for pain relief, chronic use of morphine results in tolerance and physical and psychological dependence.






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