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OPIOIDS/OPIATES

"Painkillers"
Opioids are a class of powerful drugs that are mostly prescribed to treat severe pain. If a person takes more opioids than their body can handle the opioids will slow down and can even stop the person’s breathing and heart.​ Using more opioids than the body can handle can lead to the person experiencing a poisoning or fatal overdose, in addition to other medical, legal, and social problem.

​Opioids include but are not limited to the following:

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Below are examples of counterfeit opioids:
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The top image is a real 80mg Oxycontin. Below, for comparison, is another counterfeit 80mg Oxycontin. The shade of green is clearly wrong.

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Counterfeit 80mg Oxycontin. The outer casing colour (green) is extremely close, however, the inside should be white.

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