A few common opiates and opioids include heroin, morphine, codeine, methadone, hydrocodone (known as Vicodin or Lortab) and oxycodone (otherwise known as Percocet) .
Death, jail or recovery, the only options for the millions of Americans now addicted to opioids, from prescription pain pills like oxycodone to street drugs like heroin and fentanyl.
" Opioids are now the biggest drug epidemic in American history." " Overdoses have claimed half a million lives since 1999." Today, opioids like fentanyl and oxycodone are dirty words.