COMMON STREET NAMES

Common Street Drug Names & Phrases

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Slang Drug Names

Heroin/Opiates - Bundle (small pocket of heroin), Black tar, China white, D’s(hydromorphone), DOA (dead on arrival), Drillies (hydrinirophone), Dollies (methadone), Dreamers, Drug store dope, H, Hard candy, hard drugs, Horse


Alcohol - booze, brew, suds, vino, plonk, spirits, grog, hooch, moonshine


Anabolic Steroids - roids, stacking, steroids

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Barbiturates/Benzodiazepines - yellow (jackets) barbs, blue heavens, down and dirty, downer-nerve pills, lemons, ludes (quaaludes), blue bomb, rainbows, goof balls, reds & blues - candy, roofie (rohypnol), peanuts, sleepers, tranks, Vs


Cigarettes - butts, cancer sticks, cigs, coffin nails, smokes, tumor candy


Cocaine/Amphetamines - G-rock, gold dust, Hawaiian salt, hot ice, wake-ups, ice, snow, leapers, uppers, lid poppers, turnaround, meth, tweek, white cross nuggets (crack), peaches, white sugar, peanut butter, pep pills, speckled eggs, rippers, speed, rits, road dope, rock (crack)


Ecstasy - Adam, candy flip (one hit), ecstasy, rolling, euphoria, hug drug, GHB (liquid ecstasy), love drug, M&M, MDM, X, XTC


Heroin - hot dope, junk, scag, smack, Tootsie Roll


Inhalants - gas, glue, huffer, huffing, laughing gas, pearls (amyl nitrite), poppers (amyl nitrite), sniff


LSD - barrels, black acid, blotter, cube, blue cheer, blue heaven, businessman's lunch, California sunshine, domes, dots, electric kool aid, flats, frogs, Heavenly blue, Pink Panthers, Pink Robots, Pink wedges, Purple heart, Special K (Ketamine), Super acid, Superman, trippers, wedges, window pane


Marijuana - A-bomb (marijuana and heroin), Acid, Doobie ( in cigarette form), Acapulco Gold, Ace, bhang, black gold, blow a stick, blunt, bong-water, cooled pipe, buds, buddha stick, buddha-(spiked w/opium), Chiba, Colombian (Red Black), ganga, gold, sensa, gong, hash (hashish), hash oil, hemp, weed, Indian, J, Jamaican, jive stick, joint, leaf, Mexican, Panama, Panama gold, Panama Red, pocket rocket, pot, ragweed, reefer, sativa, roach (butt of a marijuana cigarette), rope


Mescaline/Psilocybin - Button, Cactus, Magic mushroom, Sacred mushroom, Mesc, mescap, Mushroom (psilocybin), Shrooms (psilocybin)


Opium/Opiates - blacklash, blow a fill, brick, gee gee (pipe), God’s drug, gong, Lop, juice, M (morphine), Miss Emma, morph, poppy


PCP - Hog, Amoeba (magic dust), Angel dust (mist), Animal tranquillizer, peace pill, baseball, freebase, Cadillac (peterpan), Cj (red devil), Crystal joint (scuffle), Cyclone (seams), DOA sheet (dead on arrival) blow, Dust, Elephant (super rods), Goon (surfer), Lovely

Glossary of Drug Language

Back to Back - smoking crack after injecting heroin or using heroin after smoking crack


Back Up, Backtrack - procedure allowing blood into syringe to ensure needle is in vein


Babysitter - to be a guide for someone through their first drug experience


Bad Trip - an unpleasant experience while on psychoactive drugs, such as LSD


Bag - quantity of drug purchased in envelope or folded paper


Bagging - inhaling a drug from a bag


Binge - uninterrupted drug use from a bag


Blackout - amnesia of events while under influence, heavily intoxicated with alcohol and/or other sedative/hypnotic drugs


Bombed - high or intoxicated on alcohol or drugs


Burned Out - brain or chronic behavioral impairment – as a result of heavy drug use


Channel - vein used for injecting drugs


Chasing the Dragon - inhaling vapor from heroin or cocaine heated on tin foil


Chemicals - synthetic drugs


Chipping - using drugs occasionally


Clean - abstinent from drugs


Cold Turkey - stop or withdraw abruptly


Come Down - gradual “wearing off” of the effects of a drug


Connection - making an illicit drug purchase


Contact High - mild euphoria occurring in non-smokers believed by them to be the result of inhalation of marijuana fumes produced by smokers around them. Actually, the amount of the inhaled during a “contact high” is not enough to be significantly measurable in standard urine toxic screening (Bryan Finkle, Ph.D. Pharmacologist-NFL program for Substance of Abuse)


Cook - prepare powdered opioids or other drugs for injection by dissolving them in water and heating the solution


Cop - purchase or otherwise obtain drugs


Crack House - place where crack cocaine is sold or used


Crash - abrupt abstinence rapid transition from euphoria to depression


Cut - adulterate or dilute drugs


Dealer - one who sells drugs


Do a Line - inhale cocaine in the form of a narrow line


Dope - general term for drugs of abuse


Goofball - combination of drugs- cocaine and heroin; amphetamines and barbiturates


Habit - state of physical dependence


Hookah  - water pipe used to smoke marijuana or tobacco


Works (Kit) - paraphernalia used to inject drugs


Kiddie Dope - prescription drugs or look-a-like drugs


Lace - deliberately adding a substance to a drug to make it more or less potent


Rave - large party designed to enhance hallucinogenic experience


Shoot - inject a drug intravenously


Shotgun - inhaling marijuana smoke forced into one's mouth by another


Skin Popping - injecting subcutaneously


Wired - chronically dependent on amphetamines


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