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)
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