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OTHER NAMES FOR HEROIN AIP Antifreeze Aries Aunt Hazel Bad bundle Ballot Bart Simpson Big bag Big H Big Harry Bindle Birdie powder Black pearl Black stuff Black tar Blanco (Spanish) Bomb Bonita (Spanish) Boy Bozo Brain damage Brick gum Brown Brown crystal Brown rhine Brown sugar Butu Caballo (Spanish) Caca Capital H Carga (Spanish) Carne (Spanish) Chicle (Spanish) Chieva China China White Chinese red Chip Chiva (Spanish) Chocofan Cigarette paper Cotics Courage pills Crap Crop Crown crap Cura (Spanish) Dead on arrival Diesel Dirt Dog food Dogie Doogie/doojee/dugie Dooley Dope Dreck Duji Dyno Dyno-pure Eighth Estuffa Ferry dust Flea powder Foolish powder Galloping horse Gamot Gato (Spanish) George smack Glacines Golden girl Golpe Goma Good and plenty Good H H H Caps Hache Hairy Hard candy Hard stuff Harry Hazel Heaven dust Helen Hell dust Henry Hero Heroina (Spanish) Herone Hessle Him Hombre (Spanish) Hong-yen Horning Horse Hot dope HRN Isda Jee gee Jive Jive doo jee Jojee Joy flakes Joy powder Junk Karachi Lemonade Manteca (Spanish) Mexican brown Mexican horse Mexican mud Morotgara Mortal combat Muzzle Nanoo Nice and easy Nickel deck Noise Nose Number 4 Number 8 Ogoy Old Steve Pangonadalot Peg Perfect High Polvo (Spanish) Poppy Predator Pulborn Pure Rambo Raw fusion Raw hide Red chicken Red eagle Rhine Sack Salt Scag Scat Scate Scott Second to none ShIt Shmeck/schmeek Skag Skid Sleeper Slime Smack Sweet dreams Sweet Jesus Taste Tecata (Spanish) The beast The witch Thunder Trash White boy White junk White nurse White stuff Wicked Witch Witch hazel
SELLING DRUGS, AMOUNTS Abe - $5 worth of drugs Author - a doctor who writes illegal prescriptions Balloon - heroin supplier Beat artist - person selling bogus drugs Big man - drug supplier Biz - bag or portion of drugs Brewery - place where drugs are made Brick - 50 bags (USA) Bull - narcotics agent or police officer Bundle - 10 bags (USA) Burned - purchase fake drugs Busted - arrested Connect - purchase drugs; supplier of illegal drugs Cop - obtain drugs Copping zones - specific areas where buyers can purchase drugs Course note - bill larger than $2 Cut - Adulterate drugs with another substance, to make more profit Deal - To sell drugs; the amount of drugs you buy Deck- 1 to 15 grams of heroin, also known as a bag Deuce - $2 worth of drugs; heroin Dews - $10 worth of drugs Dime bag - $10 worth of drugs Dime's worth - amount of heroin to cause death Dollar - $100 worth of drugs Easy score - obtaining drugs easily Factory - place where drugs are packaged, diluted, or manufactured Fall - arrested Fifteen cents - $15 worth of drugs Five C note - $500 bill Five cent bag - $5 worth of drugs Five dollar bag - $50 worth of drugs G - $1000 or 1 gram of drugs; term for an unfamiliar male Get a gift - obtain drugs Get through - obtain drugs Gopher - person paid to pickup drugs Got it going on - fast sale of drugs Half - 1/2 ounce Half load - 15 bags (decks) of heroin Half piece - 1/2 ounce of heroin Half-a-C - $50 bill Hand-to-hand - direct delivery and payment Hit - A dose of heroin Hustle - attempt to obtain drug customers In - connected with drug suppliers Juggle - sell drugs to another addict to support a habit Juggler - teen-aged street dealer Lifted - Arrested Load - 25 bags of heroin Mule - carrier of drugs Nabbed - Arrested Nailed - arrested. Nicked - Arrested Nickel bag - $5 worth of drugs; heroin Nickel note - $5 bill One on one house - where cocaine and heroin can be purchased One plus one sales - selling cocaine and heroin together Paper - a dosage unit of heroin Paper boy - Drug supplier P-dope - 20-30% pure heroin Peddlar - drug supplier Perlas - street dealer (heroin) Powder power - When a user starts dealing and it goes to their head. Push - To sell drugs Push shorts - to cheat or sell short amounts Pusher - one who sells drugs Quarter - 1/4 ounce or $25 worth of drugs Quarter bag - $25 worth of drugs Sam - federal narcotics agent Slanging - selling drugs Sniffer bags - $5 bag of heroin intended for inhalation Spoon - 1/16 ounce of heroin Spoon - paraphernalia used to prepare heroin for injection Stash areas - drug storage and distribution areas Step on - dilute drugs Thoroughbred - drug dealer who sells pure narcotics Tick - Credit - you would ask for a bag on tick; a loan Turf - place where drugs are sold Twists - small plastic bags of heroin secured with a twist tie Uncle - Federal agents Wrap - A deal of heroin Z - 1 ounce of heroin
OTHER DRUG NAMES As - Ativan (brand name has an "A" grooved onto the pill) Amidone - methadone Aunti - opium Bars - 2mg xanax - alprazolam Big C - Cocaine Big O - opium Blues - 10mg Valiums Caps - magic mushrooms Christmas trees - tuinals (barbiturates) Dillies - Dilaudid Dreamer - morphine First line - morphine Fizzies - methadone Fours - 60mg (one grain) of Codeine compounded with paracematol (Tylenol) Footballs - Darvon and Darvocet Gondola - opium ) Green - Methadone Hows - morphine Ks - Klonopin (brand name has a "K" cut out of the center, as analogous to the "V" in valium M.S. - morphine Mary Jane - a term for cannabis that originated in the 1930s. Meth - Methadone Mister blue - morphine Morf - morphine Morpho - morphine N's - Darvon and Darvocet Oxys - oxycontin Percs - codan or percocet Perico - Puerto Rican/hispanic slang for cocaine; literally translated as "go fast" Pinks - Darvon and Darvocet Reds - seconals (barbiturates) Shrooms - magic mushrooms Sticks - the most potent form of Xanax (alprazolam), the 2mg size Sweet Morpheus - morphine Temazies - Temazapam Unkie - morphine Vs - 10mg Valiums Vikes - vicodin, lorcet or lortab; hydrocodone compounded with paracematol (Tylenol)
DRUG USERS & DEALERS Addict - Person who is addicted to drugs; has a drug habit All star - user of multiple drugs Bedbugs - fellow addicts Burnout - heavy abuser of drugs Chipper - occasional Hispanic user Chipping - using drugs occasionally Dabble - use drugs occasionally . Dinosaurs - populations of heroin users in their forties and fifties Globetrotter - an addict who traverses different neighborhoods in search of the best narcotics Gutter junkie - addict who relies on others to obtain drugs Hulling - using others to get drugs Hype - heroin addict; an addict Jolly pop - casual user of heroin Jones - “Got myself a Jones” means physically addicted Make up - need to find more drugs Nollhead - one who habitually uses barbituates (i.e., tuinal, seconal, fiornal) Ones - Individuals, who spend each $5 or $10 they earn on one bag of heroin or cocaine. Smack-head - addict Strung out - heavily addicted to drugs Tecatos - Hispanic heroin addicts Zombie - heavy user of drugs
TAKING DRUGS, EQUIPTMENT, WITHDRAWAL Agonies - withdrawal symptoms All lit up - under the influence of drugs Apparto - Puerto Rican slang for works (syringe). Artillery - equipment for injecting drugs Babe - drug used for detoxification Baby habit - occasional use of drugs Babysit - guide someone through first drug experience Back jack - injecting opium Back to back - smoking crack after injecting heroin or vise versa Backtrack - allow blood to flow back into a needle during injection Backup - prepare vein for injection Bad go - bad reaction to a drug Bad hit - Injection resulting in unpleasant side effects. Bang - to inject a drug Batt - IV needle Bender - drug party Bing - enough of a drug for one injection Bingo - to inject a drug Bird - Prison sentence Blasted - under the influence of drugs Blow a fix - injection misses the vein and is wasted in the skin Blow a shot - injection misses the vein and is wasted in the skin Boost - to inject a drug; to steal Boost and shoot - steal to support a habit Boot - to inject a drug Booted - under the influence of drugs Boxed - in jail Bridge up or bring up - ready a vein for injection Burn the main line - to inject a drug Burned out - collapse of veins from repeated injections Buzz - under the influence of drugs Channe - l vein into which a drug is injected Channel swimmer - one who injects heroin Charged up - under the influence of drugs Clear up - stop drug use Clucking - Detoxing from heroin; withdrawal symptoms Coasting - under the influence of drugs Cook down - process in which users liquefy heroin in order to inhale it Cooker - to inject a drug Cooking up - Melting down heroin on a spoon for injecting Crank up - Inject drugs Cranking - Injecting drugs Digging - Injecting heroin Draw up - to inject a drug Dropper - to inject a drug Emergency gun - instrument used to inject other than syringe Flying - under the influence of drugs Fuete - hypodermic needle Gaffus - hypodermic needle Geezer - to inject a drug Get down - to inject a drug Get lifted - under the influence of drugs Get off - to inject a drug; get "high" Get off houses - private places heroin users can purchase & use heroin for a fee Gimmick - drug injection equipment Give wings - inject someone or teach someone to inject heroin Glass - hypodermic needle Glass gun - hypodermic needle Go into a sewer - to inject a drug G-shot - small dose of drugs used to hold off withdrawal symptoms until full dose can be taken Gun - Syringe Gutter - vein into which a drug is injected Heeled - having plenty of money High - The effect drug users feel when using drugs Hit house - house where users go to shoot up and leave the owner drugs as payment Hit the main line - to inject a drug Hit the needle - to inject a drug Hit the pit - to inject a drug Hitting up - injecting drugs Holding - possessing drugs Honeymoon - early stages of drug use before addiction or dependency develops Hot load/hot shot - lethal injection of an opiate Hype stick - hypodermic needle Ice cream habit - occasional use of drugs Intramuscularly - Injecting into a muscle Jab/job - to inject a drug Jack - steal someone else's drugs Jack-Up - to inject a drug Jolt - to inject a drug; strong reaction to drugs Joy pop - to inject a drug Joy popping - occasional use of drugs Kick - Getting off a drug habit, 'to kick the habit' Kit - Equipment for injecting drugs Laugh and scratch - to inject a drug Lay-out - equipment for taking drugs Leaping - under the influence of drugs Lit up - under the influence of drugs Main line - to inject a drug Mainliner - Person who injects into the vein Monged - When a person nods off to sleep when heavily under the influence Monkey - drug dependency; cigarette made from cocaine paste and tobacco Nod - effects of heroin Nod out - When a person nods off to sleep when heavily under the influence Olive oil - Tin foil (Cockney rhyming slang) On a trip - under the influence of drugs On ice - in jail On the nod - under the influence of narcotics or depressant Pepsi habit - occasional use of drugs Ping-in-wing - to inject a drug Pinned out - When pupils shrink to the size of pin-heads when under the influence Pinning - Injecting drugs Pins - Syringes Plant - hiding place for drugs Point - a needle Poking - Injecting drugs Rattling - Detoxing from heroin, doing your 'rattle' Razed - under the influence of drugs Red - under the influence of drugs Riding the wave - under the influence of drugs Rig - Equipment for injecting drugs Ripped - Under the influence of drugs Roller - to inject a drug Satch cotton - fabric used to filter narcotics before injection Scratch - money Script - Prescription for controlled drugs, usually refers to a Methadone Sewer - vein into which a drug is injected Sharps - Needles/Syringes Sharps Box - Box into which you can place used needles safely Shooting up - Injecting heroin Shot - to inject a drug Shot down - under the influence of drugs Sick - Suffering from withdrawal symptoms Skied - under the influence of drugs Slam - To inject a drug Smoke-out - under the influence of drugs Spike - to inject a drug; needle Spiking - Injecting drugs Stash - Place to hide drugs; amount of drugs Stoned - Under the influence of drugs Straight - Not under the influence of drugs; someone who does not take drugs Tie - to inject a drug Toking - To smoke heroin on foil Tools - Equipment for injecting drugs Toot - To smoke heroin on foil Track - to inject a drug Track marks - Rows of needle marks on a person. Scars caused by injecting Tracks - Row of needle marks on a person. Scars caused by injecting Trap - hiding place for drugs Trashed - Under the influence Turned on - introduced to drugs; under the influence Wasted - Under the influence of drugs Wired - High or stoned on drugs
COMMONLY USED TERMS ON THE SITE Addiction - a chronic, relapsing disease (characterised by compulsive drug seeking and use) Bag - The amount of heroin bought (wrap, bag, deal). Blob - Melted heroin, on foil Buprenorphine - A strong pain killer used in the treatment of patients addicted to opiates. Chasing the dragon - to smoke heroin Citric / Citric Acid - Powder that helps dissolve the heroin Cold turkey - sudden withdrawal from drugs; withdrawal symptoms Cook - mix heroin with water; heating heroin to prepare it for injection Craving - A powerful, often uncontrollable desire for drugs Dealer - Person who sells drugs Detox / Detoxification - To try and get clean by not using a drug. To stop using. Dihydrocodeine (DF's) - These are strong pain killers used for detox. Gear - Heroin Gouching - When a person nods off to sleep when heavily under the influence Habit - State of addiction; being addicted to heroin - 'having a habit' Hooked - Addicted to a drug Junkie - addict LAAM - Levo-alpha-acetyl-methadol. Methadone alternative. Mainlining - Intravenous injection of heroin (directly into a vein) Methadone - A long-acting synthetic opiate OD (s) - Overdose Opiates - All drugs derived from the opium poppy. Opioids - Synthetic drugs manufactured to mimic the effects of opiates Overdose - When a person takes too much heroin Physical Dependence - Being addicted. Not being able to stop without withdrawl effects. Pinned - When a users pupils shrink to the size of pin-heads when under the influence Powder - heroin Rush - The surge of euphoric pleasure that follows straight after a drug has been taken Score - purchase drugs Score / Scoring - Purchase drugs Sharps Box - Box to store used syringes in safely Shoot - heroin Shoot up - Injecting heroin Skin popping - Injecting drugs subcutaneously Snorting - Sniffing drugs up your nose Subcutaneously - Injecting just under the skin (skin-popping) Tooter - The foil tube used to smoke heroin through Tooting - Smoking heroin on foil Turkeying - Detoxing from heroin Withdrawal - The symptoms that occur when an addictive drug is greatly reduced or stopped Works - The tools to do heroin (needles, tourniquets, spoons, filters, lighters, swabs)
Last updated: 26 August 2004
