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Loudoun County Sheriffs Office Citizens Police Academy Drug Awareness 2018 http://sheriff.loudoun.gov Loudoun Co unty Sheriffs Office, VA Circle of

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Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office Citizens Police Academy

Drug Awareness

2018

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Circle of Addiction Hydrocodone $5 to $7 per tablet

Heroin $15 per bag Overdose and Potential Death

Hydrocodones $5 to $7 per tablet

Oxycodone Acetaminophen (Percocets) $7 to $10 per tablet Oxycontin Roxicodone/ Oxycodone $30 to $40 per tablet

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Top Abused Prescription Drugs Alprazolam (Xanax) $5 a tablet

  • Treats Anxiety

Amphetamine Mixture (Adderall)

  • Treats ADHD
  • Methamphetamine type “high”
  • Sold in high schools and

colleges

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Top Abused Prescription Drugs Hydrocodone (Vicodin, Norco, Lortab, Lorcet)

  • $6- $8 per tablet

Hydromorphone (Dilaudid)

  • Synthetic Heroin
  • $20- $30 a tablet

Methodone

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Top Abused Prescription Drugs Oxycodone (OxyContin, Roxicodone )

  • Treats moderate to severe pain
  • One 80 mg OxyContin = 16

Percocets

  • Reformulated in 2010 to prevent

crushing, snorting, injecting

  • Cooked, smoked, injected
  • 1 $ per mg
  • Roxi’s (30 mg) since 2010
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Top Abused Prescription Drugs Oxycodone with Acetaminophen (Percocet, Tylox) Oxycodone with Asprin (Percodan, Roxiprin)

  • Treats pain

Tramadol (Ultram)

  • Treats pain
  • Non-narcotic

Zolpidem (Ambien)

  • Treats insomnia
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What is Drug Diversion? The obtaining of “legal” drugs for an illegal purpose or any break or deviation of the intended path of the prescription drug The sale of prescription drugs outside the distribution channels for which they were originally intended

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Why Prescription Drugs?

  • Prescriptions are easier to obtain
  • Beliefs that prescriptions are “legal drugs”
  • Beliefs of a “lower risk of overdose”
  • User normally knows exactly what they are getting
  • Easily borrowed, stolen, and sold
  • $$$$$$$
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Youth Offenders Youth:

  • Burglaries
  • Taking medication from the medicine cabinet “Pharming parties”
  • Selling their personal Ritilan and Adderall to classmates
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Youth Offenders

Past Year Drug Use: High School Seniors 2012

Source MTF w/NIDA and NIH Funding

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Fentanyl

  • Fentanyl is a schedule II synthetic opioid.
  • Approximately 80-100 times stronger than morphine.
  • Approximately 40-50 times stronger than heroin.
  • Effectively treats breakthrough cancer pain.
  • Dosages of fentanyl is measured in

micrograms (one millionth of a gram)

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Clandestine Manufactured Fentanyl

  • Fentanyl can be illicitly produced or diverted from medical sources
  • Often used to increase potency of low quality heroin.
  • Fentanyl fatalities appear to be heroin overdoses unless fentanyl is specifically

tested for post-mortem.

  • Source of for fentanyl, analogs, and precursors is believed to be China.
  • During the last two years, the distribution of clandestinely manufactured

fentanyl has been linked to an unprecedented outbreak of thousands of

  • verdoses and deaths.

https://www.dea.gov/video_clips/Fentanyl%20Roll%20Call%20Video.mp4

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Naloxone (Narcan)

  • Naloxone can reverse an accidental overdose of opioids.
  • Opiate antagonist
  • Can be administered by nasal spray or injection

Examples of Opiates include: Heroine Methadone Oxycodone Vicodin Percocet Codeine Fentanyl

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LSD

  • Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD)
  • Potent hallucinogen
  • LSD is usually sold in the form of

impregnated paper (blotter acid), typically imprinted with colorful graphic designs. It has also been encountered in tablets (microdots), thin squares of gelatin (window panes), in sugar cubes and, rarely, in liquid form.

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LSD

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LSD

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Resources

DEA: WWW.DEA.GOV https://www.operationprevention.com/ Poison Control: 800-222-1222 Pill Identification Sites: www.drugs.com Drug Take back locations: Dulles South Public Safety Center, 25216 Loudoun County Parkway, Chantilly, VA 20152 571-258-3200. Eastern Loudoun Station, 46620 East Frederick Drive, Sterling, VA 20164 571-258-3356. University Station, 45299 Research Place, #100, Ashburn, VA 20147 571-258-3000. Western Loudoun Sheriff Station, 47 W. Loudoun Street, Round Hill, VA 20141 571-258-3750

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Questions ??

Detective Michael Safford

Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office Tactical Enforcement Unit Cell: 571-233-0015 Michael.safford@Loudoun.gov