As taken from the NIH,
Drug abuse is a serious public health problem that affects almost every community and family in some way. Each year drug abuse causes millions of serious illnesses or injuries among Americans. Abused drugs include:
Alcohol (Booze, Juice, Hooch, Sauce, Rotgut)
Amphetamines
Anabolic Steroids
Bath Salts (Ivory Wave, Bloom, Cloud Nine, Lunar Wave, Vanilla Sky, White Lightning, Scarface)
Club Drugs
GHB: Grievous Bodily Harm, G, Liquid Ecstasy, Georgia Home Boy
Ketamine: Special K, K, Vitamin K, Cat Valiums
Rohypnol: Roofies, Rophies, Roche, Forget-me Pill
Cocaine (Coke, Coca, Snow, Flake, Blow)
Hallucinogens
LSD: Acid, Boomers, Yellow Sunshines, blotter, dots, window panes, sugar, trips,
PCP: Angel/Angel Dust, boat/love boat, peace, killer week, super grass, ozone
Heroin (Smack, Junk, H, Black tar, Horse)
Inhalants
K2 Spice
Marijuana (Weed, Pot, Grass, Herb & Boom)
MDMA (Ecstasy, Molly, XTC, X, Adam, Clarity, Lover’s Speed)
Methamphetamines (Meth, Crank, Ice, Crystal, Glass, Fire, Chalk)
Prescriptions Drugs
Oxycodone: Oxy, Cotton, Percs
Hydrocodone: Vikes, Vikings
Salvia
Drug abuse also plays a role in many major social problems, such as drugged driving, violence, stress, and child abuse. Drug abuse can lead to homelessness, crime, and missed work or problems with keeping a job. It harms unborn babies and destroys families. There are different types of treatment for drug abuse. But the best is to prevent drug abuse in the first place.
Using Drugs while having anesthesia can be life threatening. It can also impact on our ability to manage your post operative pain. If you are using drugs, please STOP all drug use immediately prior to surgery. It is essential that you discuss your drug use with the pre-operative team and/or your anesthesiologist so that necessary safety measures can be put into place.
Patients who are recovering from drug use and are on the following medications: Buprenorphine, Suboxone, Butrans, or Subutex should discuss this with the Pre-operative Team at their Pre-op Visit.
Office of Justice Programs
www.ojp.usdoj.gov
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delingquency Prevention
http://www.ojjdp.gov/
1-800-638-8736
Office for Victims of Crime
http://ojp.gov/ovc/
1-800-627-6872
Drug Enforcement Administration
www.dea.gov
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT
1-800-662-HELP
Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America
www.CADCA.org
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
http://www.samhsa.gov/
National Institute on Drug Abuse
http://www.drugabuse.gov/
Office of National Drug Control Policy Clearinghouse
1-800-666-3332
www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov
Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator
www.findtreatment.samhsa.gov
www.drugabuse.gov/publications/term/160/DrugFacts
