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WORDS TO UNDERSTAND

black market: an illegal market for illicit substances and other items, often at incredibly high prices cognitive: refers to anything related to a person’s ability to think, understand, and process information intravenously: injecting a substance into the body via a needle, such as injecting liquid fentanyl into a vein in the arm to get high opioids: drugs derived from the poppy plant that trigger a high release of pleasurable chemicals in the brain; synthetic varieties are artificially produced to simulate this reaction peer pressure: when friends try to get another person in a social group to do something (often illegal or dangerous) that they do not want to do potency: the measurement of how strongly something affects a person, such as how much fentanyl triggers physical and mental changes after use

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