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PCP `Ad Diction Ary' of Angustitados A dysphoric feeling that can users' terms produce Animal LSD TYLER CHILDS CYMET, DO Ant A small time drug dealer, usually sell- Physicians obtain information by verbally com- ing to support his own habit Antifreeze municating with patients. But communication is frequently Methyl impaired for varied reasons. Often, physicians and pa- Antilog tients speak different languages, even when both use Eng- Peyote lish as their vernacular. Intravenous drug users have their A-One Dope Cocaine and own way of referring to their lifestyle and habits. Without Apache understanding the terms they use, the physician will have A brand of heroin difficulty appreciating the course of events leading up to Apogee a disease. Terms unique to the , or terms that A brand of bong Apple have a different meaning to drug users than they do to A nonaddict the general public are defined herein. This special lexi- Around the turn con is the culmination of the authors 5-year file-card col- Withdrawal lection of terms. Arsenal Drug supply (Key words: Communication, intravenous drug users, Artillery history and physical examination, terminology) Drug injection paraphernalia AS Quaaludes A Asthmador Acid A May refer to or acid LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) Away AB AD In jail An addict An abscess, ie, "I must be shooting Azucar weak, I got myself an AB." Adam Heroin A-Bomb Amphetamine Alley Juice B Using two different types of in order to get a different (synergistic) Methyl alcohol B effect, ie, speedballing. Amarillas A way of buying a small amount of A-Boot Pentobarbital marijuana, usually about the size of Under the influence of drugs Amy a sugar packet Acapulco Gold Amyl nitrate (poppers) Bacha Angel Dust A specific type of marijuana A marijuana cigarette butt Ace PCP () Back Track Marijuana Angel Hair To pull blood into the syringe before Ace (alt) PCP injecting; many addicts routinely Someone you can trust, a good guy Angel Mist back track, ie, mix blood with her- oin in the syringe before injecting. Dr Cymet is completing his residency in internal medicine at Yale Univer- ("With that little heroin, you better sity School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn, and is assuming the positions of back track fast.") chief resident at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore and instructor of medicine at Backwards The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md. Taking a tranquilizer, used as "do- Reprint requests to Tyler Childs Cymet, DO, 3594 Bimini Ave, Cooper ing backwards" or "going back- City, FL 33026. wards"

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Bad Blood Beans Blade Syphilis Knife Bador Beast, the Blast Hallucinogenic seeds LSD Shoot, inject intravenously Bad Seed Beat Blenderized Peyote —Embalming fluid that may be in- Messed up, not with the program Bagman haled or huffed Blockbuster A supplier of drugs —Not the real thing, ie, buying Caffeine tablet Balling crack and getting crushed aspirin, or Blotter Acid Selling cocaine wax LSD soaked into a piece of cardboard Barn D Bed Bugs Blow A pill with Dilaudid and Preludin Fellow drug addicts Cocaine Bammies Be down Blowman Marijuana that has been cut too To behave, not cause trouble Gang member designated to carry a much Beef gun in a "clean" weaponless fight Barns Another name for heroin Blue Angel A unit of sale for amphetamines— Bennies (Benz) (Sodium Amytal) sold in test tubes. Benzedrine Blue Birds Bananas Benny Jag Banana peels smoked as a drug pro- Amphetamine intoxication Blue Devils vide a relaxing kind of Bernice Amobarbital (Sodium Amytal) Ban Apple Gas Cocaine Blues N-butyl nitrate Bernies Barbiturates Bang Cocaine Blue Star Isobutyl nitrate Bernies Flakes A brand of LSD Bang (alt) Cocaine Blue Velvet Injection of a drug Bhudda Sens Amobarbital (Sodium Amytal) Bang-Bangs A very green, potent form of mari- Bluies Drug dealers security force juana Barbiturates Bangers Big Bloke Blunts People who mainline Cocaine A bull durham (self-rolled) cigarette Barbs Big Bob of , cocaine, and marijuana Barbiturates A white tablet usually hallucino- Body Packing Baseball genic (MDA [methyldioxyam- Transporting drugs hidden inside The activity of socially smoking phetamine]) the body (ie, in the stomach, kept in crack cocaine Big Boy plastic bags or "keistering") Base Binge A leader, usually referring to some- Bol Baby Smoking or basing cocaine for 2 or one selling drugs A girl who will trade anything for more days without a break Bill the Cat cheap alcohol Bazooka A brand name of LSD Bol 148 A paste of crack cocaine that may be Bing LSD chewed or smoked To inject a drug Bolsita B-Bombs Bingle A bag of drugs Benzedrine inhalers Dealer Bolt BBS Bit Isobutyl nitrate The feeling of lethargy, fatigue, and Jail term Bomb sleep that follows long binges of co- Black Beauties Barbiturates caine use Amphetamines Bomb (alt) Beamer Black Bird A caffeine pill that is big and gray A person who smokes crack Amphetamines Bomba Beam me down Black Mole Strong marijuana Help me off a high Caffeine tablet Bombay Black Beam me up Black Stuff Hashish Get me high Bombers (continued on page 436)

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Marijuana Bombido An ampule of liquefied drug (usually amphetamine, may be heroin or - biturates) Bong A water pipe used to smoke mari- juana Boo Marijuana Book, the PDR, a drug users bible Boosting Stealing, usually done to support a habit Booting Drawing blood back into a drug- filled syringe before injecting; may be done repeatedly in the process of administering a drug; has a negative connotation, as it is done repeatedly beyond where it can provide more drugs. ("There is no gravy there to boot.") Bop Fight Bopping Club A fighting gang Boxed —Died or killed —Surrounded by rival gang mem- bers or police Boy Heroin Boy and Girl Heroin and cocaine mixed into a syr- inge Bread Money Buck Homemade wine Bug Burglar alarm Bummer Bad trip Bum Rush Physically abusing a bum or street person as a form of amusement Bust or Busted Arrest or arrested C Cabello Heroin (continued on page 438)

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Cabo The process of mixing lidocaine into Marijuana cigarette butt the cocaine when making crack Cactus Con Peyote Swindling or outfoxing someone; Cafe also known as "playing the con" Marijuana Connection CB2 Access to drug sales An hallucinogenic amphetamine Cooked Cocaine CD Purer, but less stable than crack; usu- Glutethimide, a central nervous sys- ally stretched with baking soda; tem when tasted will appear bitter Cecil Cooking it up Cocaine Preparing heroin for use Cheesing Coolie Smiling A non-gang–related person or drug Cheesy salesman Cheap Corner Boy China Red A low level marketer of drugs Heroin Cotton Fever China White A systemic process of fevers, leth- Synthetic heroin (about 10 times argy caused by impurities in the cot- stronger than heroin) ton through which drugs are filtered. Chinese Cure Must be differentiated from endocar- Chipping to prevent physical addic- ditis. tion Crabs Chinesing Pediculosis pubis Heating up heroin on aluminum foil Crack Cocaine and inhaling the vapors A form of cocaine, mixed with a base Chipping to stabilize it. This is cheap and gives Dosing a drug so that physical ad- a rapid, short-lived high. Smoked or diction does not occur; after each use based, when bought on the streets; of a drug, waiting at least one half- it tastes mediciny. life before doing the drug again. Crash Chippy Coming down from a drug high A young female that belongs to a Crib gang Bed or apartment Chuckers Crystal Dice A solid that changes to a liquid when Cibas smoked, then resolidifies and can be Doriden reused. Methyl amphetamine (usu- City Gin ally smoked—the amphetamine Water equivalent of crack) Clap Crystal Tea A sexually transmitted disease THC, or Clipped Cut Arrested Mix a drug with other substances Cocktail Methadone and cocaine done to- D gether Dago Cold Turkey Marijuana Quitting an addiction all at once with- Dead Eye out a transition or tapering-off pe- An eye stuck in one position from opi- riod ate use Comeback Deadly Nightshade (continued on page 440)

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Atropa belladonna Dope El Rukns Dead on Arrival Marijuana Name of an organized gang PCP basing Dope Fiend Enchanters Nightshade Dealer A person who is badly addicted; the Atropa belladonna Drug supplier whole life will revolve around his or Energized Debs her habit High on drugs A gang little sister Dopers Erizo Devils Herb Intravenous (IV) drug abusers Marijuana withdrawal Atropa belladonna Doriden Loading Es and Vs Dex Using glutethimide (Doriden) with Elavil and Valium, used by crack Dexedrine a caffeine chaser abusers to come down from a high Dial-A-Drug Downers E spit A manner of selling drugs whereby hypnotics High, euphoric an order is placed with a "beeper- Dozens Essence man," who then has the buyer pay An insult contest; putting down an- MDMA, an hallucinogenic at one location and pick up the drugs other persons ancestry Estofa in another. This limits potential Drip Heroin prosecution for selling drugs. Gonorrhea ET Dies Driving the car Etryptamine, an hallucinogenic am- Detectives Going on a drug-induced "trip" phetamine Diet Pills Drop urine A weak amphetamine (used in a de- To give a urine specimen An hallucinogen and an ampheta- rogatory manner) Dry Drunk mine mixed together Dilation Someone who has given up alcohol Eve Dilantin but still acts like an alcoholic Amphetamine Dime Bag Ducky Fins Exotic Ten dollars worth of marijuana Dollars Sensamilla type of marijuana Dirt Dust Eyeball Heroin PCP (phencyclidine) Look a person up and down Dirty Drop Dynamite Drug-positive urine Using cocaine and heroin together F Dirty Urine F66 Urine that tests positive for drugs E Tuinal, a combination drug with Disciples E amobarbital and . "F66" Name of a street gang MDMA (3, 4 methylenedioxymetham- is the imprint that appears on the Do Bads phetamide), an hallucinogenic am- brandname pulvule. Females who prostitute themselves phetamine Face Drano or males who will kill for money to Echalay Cocaine do drugs Injection of heroin Fake a blast Dog Food Ecstasy Fake a high Mexican heroin, usually diluted with Amphetamine derivative similar to Fall molasses, making it sticky like tar; MDMA Arrested may be snorted or smoked Eightball Fallout Dog it Freebase cocaine with ether Nodding or sleeping after doing a To run away from a fight Eight Balls drug Doing Dates One-eighth ounce of cocaine Farmer Prostitution Eighth Novice with regard to drug use Dollies One-eighth ounce of heroin Fentanyl Methadone Electric Synthetic heroin Dolls Psychedelics Fiending Methadone Elephant Tranquilizer Acute binge of crack cocaine use Doogie Phencyclidine Fifty Ones Generic term referring to a mind- Elephant Trunk PCP (phencyclidine) altering substance Phencyclidine Fin (continued on page 443)

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Five dollars Baby Glass Firing the ack ack gun Fuzz Designer amphetamine Heroin placed on the tip of a ciga- Police Go rette Fish Gofast A newly arrived addict at a rehab G Amphetamine program The paper funnel and eyedropper Going Sewer Five Dollar Ready Rock used to prepare heroin Injecting intravenously Freebase cocaine Gaffled Gold Fix Arrested Money Dose of a drug Gangster Gold Dolphin Fizzies Marijuana LSD Methadone tablet Gangster Ride Gold Dust Flam Stealing a car for pleasure and Cocaine Lie thrills, not profit Goofballs Flash Ganj a Barbiturates Drug-induced feeling; a short feeling Marijuana Grapes of warmth Garbage Wine Flashback Heavily diluted heroin that has been Grass Hallucination from an old trip stomped on or cut once too many Marijuana Flashing times Grass Spaghetti Sauce Inhaling solvents to get a high Garbage Head LSD and marijuana Floating An addict Gravel A euphoric feeling with alteration in Gazer Cocaine and baking soda sensations Agent Gravy Folding Stuff GB When booting when the blood clots, Money Barbiturates used with heroin it is reheated and then reinjected Fold up Gear Grease Go through withdrawal Amphetamine Football Gee Green Elavil and alcohol Opium Marijuana, money Four Doors Geek Green and Clear Glutethimide (Doriden) and cocaine A marijuana joint with a small Dexamyl, trademark of an ampheta- Fours amount of cocaine sprinkled on it mine- combination, mar- Acetaminophen and cocaine Geeked keted as an appetite suppressant Freak Antsy, restless Green Domes Frequent user of drugs Geek Monster LSD Freaked out A girl who will do anything for a few Green Dragons A feeling that can be induced by a crack crumbs LSD drug Geetis Green Egg Freebase Money Caffeine and ephedrine A way of cooking cocaine and smok- Geezer Green Gold ing the condensed smoke Needle shot LSD Freeze Gem Green Heart The feeling that one gets in the nose Measurement for selling cocaine Amphetamine when snorting cocaine Gift of the Sun God Greens and Blacks French Fries Cocaine Librium Yellow crack with ridges Gigin Greta Frisco Speedball Codeine elixir Marijuana Cocaine, heroin, and LSD Girl Griefo/Grifa Fuel Cocaine Marijuana Parenterally administered ampheta- Gizmo Groove Tube mine How addicts refer to a needle on a A straw used for snorting drugs Fussbox syringe Ground Control

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The person who is designated to talk Hot Shot effect. It is an alkalinization of the a person on a dangerous trip down Injecting something impure, like as- body fluids usually by cutting drug from drugs pirin that was crushed, usually will with ascorbic acid or lemon juice. wind up in an abscess H Huarache J H Low-potency marijuana powder J Heroin Huffing Marijuana H and C Absoibing a drug through inhala- Jac Aroma Heroin and cocaine tion. On the Indian reservations, Isobutyl nitrate Habit H202 is placed in a plastic bag and Jacking off the spike Addiction participant then pants with the bag Placing a needle in a vein and then Hack over his face. injecting the substance slowly to en- Doctor Hyatari joy a prolonged effect Hag Peyote Jack Leg Addicts who need large amounts of Amateur. "A hit man is a jack leg drugs to get high because of their tol- I phlebotomist" erance of the drug Ice Jack up Hardleg Long-acting amphetamine in a crys- Inject a Man talized form; melts when used, then Jam Harry resolidifies and can be reused; it may Cocaine Heroin be snorted or injected. Jamaican Hash Ice Cream Marijuana Hashish, a tar made from marijuana Amphetamines Jap plants. It is very concentrated and Ice Cream Habit An ambush of other gang members gummy. An irregular drug user Jara Heart Ice Cream Man The police Courage A pusher or someone who sells drugs Ject Heat Iced Pronounced "jet"; the projects; gov- Police Killed, or put into jail ernment housing Heater Illing Jee Gee Gun Coming down from a trip; not a very Heroin Hip (Hep) good feeling Jeffing Intelligent Im holding A con based on making oneself seem Hirropan A person with drugs on him that are slow, stupid, or contemptable Ice for sale Jelly Babies Hit Man In action Amphetamines Phlebotomist, a person who injects Buying or selling drugs Jelly Beans drugs into another persons veins in In a jam Amphetamines a shooting gallery, usually in return Wanted by the police Jet for a hit himself or herself; used by In-Betweens hydrochloride novice drug users and longtime drug Barbiturates mixed with ampheta- Jim Jones users with difficult-to-hit veins mines Marijuana laced with cocaine and Hog Indiana Hay PCP PCP Marijuana Jit Camp Hollywood Indian Buy A juvenile detention center A brand of heroin Marijuana Jitterbut Hooked Indian Hat Fight Addicted Marijuana Jive Hooking Indica Lie Prostituting oneself Marijuana Jocko Hop Head In transit Cocaine-laced marijuana, usually Opium user On an LSD trip used by elementary or high school stu- Horse Ion Trapping dents with the smoke trapped under Heroin A technique used to increase a drugs the persons hand and inhaled (continued on page 447)

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Joint LA looking drug Marijuana cigarette Long-acting Looking Jolly Beans Ladilla In search of a connection to buy Methamphetamine A brick of marijuana or hashish drugs from Jones Lady Loot A habit Cocaine Money Jonesing La jara Love Drug Withdrawing from a drug The police Quaaludes Jooking Lambs Breath Love Leaf Hamming it up Marijuana soaked in an organic sol- PCP Juice vent Love Weed Homemade wine Latin Kings Marijuana Jumbs A prison-based gang, very big in the Love Wood Vials of cocaine for a single use or drug trade Hashish sitting LBs LSD Junky Pounds Acid, sold in sheets of paper called Drug addict Lead tattoos Car LSD Blotter K LSD on blotter (notebook) type pa- K2 Punch per LSD Lickem LSM Karache Hallucinogen placed in gelatin An offshoot of LSD with hallucino- Synthetic form of heroin Licorice genic properties Kee Codeine Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds A kilo Licorice Drops LSD Keef Morning glory seeds Luding Out High-grade marijuana Lid Using quaaludes Keg An ounce of marijuana Lues A large supply of drugs Lid Poppers Syphilis Keistering Amphetamine Lumber Hiding drugs in a persons rectum Lightening Marijuana stems Kentucky Blue Amphetamine Luudes American-grown marijuana Lilly Short for quaaludes Kibbles and Bits Seconal Little flakes of cocaine Lineup (train) M King and Queen An orgy where males get in line to Mad Dog (M.D. 20/20) Cocaine and heroin used together participate in sexual acts with a fe- A brand of wine put out by Mogen Knife this male victim David that has a high alcohol con- Leave Lip tent; used by young alcoholics and Knock Knock Argument chronic winoholics A gang game whereby one gang mem- Lisca Mainline ber enters another gang members ter- Marijuana cigarette Inject drugs into a major or moderate- ritory, knocks on a rival gang mem- Load sized vein bers door, beats up that person, and 75 bags of heroin Maintained then leaves the beaten person in his Loaded Being on methadone or her own home —Drunk Man Knot —Using a drug to the point of intoxi- Police A muscle cation Mary Jane Kryptonite Loads Marijuana Crack cocaine Doriden and codeine MDA Locoweed Also known as "mellow drug of Amer- L Marijuana ica," 3,4 (methyldioxyamphetamine) L7 Lookalikes Mellow T Square One drug passes off as a similar- PCP

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Mellow Yellow Isobutyl nitrate Owsley Bananas that are smoked for the re- Obecalp LSK or LSD laxing dizzying effect Placebo (spelled backward); usually OZ Mexican Reds sold to novice drug users Ounce of drug Seconal Obtain Ozone Micro Dot To get drugs Phencyclidine A brand of LSD OD Mint Leaf To overdose P PCP Offed P Miss Killed Peyote, or P-Dope Not hitting a vein; drug was either OJ Pack injected deep in the dermis predis- Opium joint Carry posing to an abscess, or in an artery, On Pad leading to a dangerous high Under the influence of drugs Apartment Miss Emma One Fifty One Patient sulfate — A high-caliber measurement of A cocaine addict, called this because MJ rum cocaine addiction is considered to be Marijuana joint — When dipped in cotton and lit, will entirely psychological by most ad- Monkey on your back change the taste of cocaine being dicts without a physical component A drug habit freebased (medical personnel know that this is On ice false) N —In jail PCP Narc — Dead or unresponsive. Initial treat- Phencyclidine, an drug Police ment of an overdose in many crack that can cause paranoia and delu- Natural Trip houses is to place ice cubes in the per- sions. Also has a func- A high from a naturally occurring sons underwear. If that does not tion where what a person sees does drug like nutmeg wake the person up, then he or she not register. Nature is dumped in public so someone else Peace Sexual functioning, ie, "My nature will find him or her. STP, an hallucinogenic type of drug isnt working right" On the beam Peanut Butter Balls Needle Freak Feeling real good Phenobarbital An addict whose pleasure comes On the bricks Peckerwood from injecting himself with a needle Out of jail A white person more so than from the drug con- On the bus Petty Bitch tained in solution On drugs, a user of drugs Hooker Nickel Sack On the grounds Piece A $5 bag of marijuana Out of jail Weapon Nod OP Pigeon Drop A feeling one gets when using her- Opium A specific type of scam to steal oin, placing oneself in a suspended OPP money state between wakefulness and sleep Own personal sexual play toy Pinching Nose Oranges Taking shavings or small amounts Cocaine Dexedrine out of cash transactions to enhance Nose Candy Orangies profits; done by "ant.§," or other small- Cocaine Dexedrine time dealers Nose Stuff Orange Sunshine Pink Footballs Cocaine An orange hallucinogenic pill with Caffeine tablet Nuts R Us green spots on it Pink Heart The psychiatric unit Outfit Caffeine tablet Drug-injecting paraphernalia Pitcher 0 Overcharged A person who deals in crack cocaine O Overdose Plumbing Opium Overjolt The urinary tract 02 Overdose Pocket (continued on page 453)

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The area between the sternomastoid Seconal Phencyclidine and the sternocleidomastoid. A com- Red Bullet Rockets mon area for hit men to attempt to Seconal Bong hits of marijuana inject drugs aiming for the external Red Doll Rock Up or internal jugular veins. Seconal Taking powdered cocaine and crush- Point Red Hot ing it to rock forms for easier selling Needle A brand of heroin or use Popped a cap Red Pyramid Rollers Shot a gun at someone A type of LSD Veins that roll Poppers Reefer Rounding Amyl nitrate Marijuana To open up and reveal what one is Pro Register a hit about to someone else Prostitute Get a flashback from hitting a vein Rum Fits Product Rerock Alcohol-withdrawal–induced seizures Drugs, as in "you got the product(?)" Mexican heroin Running it (do you have drugs on you?) Rerocking Injecting Program Washing cocaine with ammonia Run the shit Drug rehab Rev Ike Taking a dose of a drug Purple Heart PCP Rush Caffeine tablet Rhapsody A euphoric feeling, explosion of emo- MDMA tion, a temporary high Q Rhythm Quaaks Amphetamine S Quaaludes Ribbetts Salt Quaas Librax Powdered heroin Quaaludes (methylqualone) Rig Salt and Pepper Quarter Injecting equipment Heroin and powdered milk One-fourth ounce of cocaine (7 Righteous Saltleg grams) Good quality Female Quarter Bag Rippers Salt Peter One ounce of marijuana Amphetamines A drug used to decrease libido, ru- Quarter Deck Ripple mored to be given to every man who Paper made up of heroin and am- Cheap wine is incarcerated phetamine Ritz and T Sam Quarter Moon Ritalin and Talwin Federal agent (as in "Uncle Sam") Hashish mixed with opium Roach Scam End piece (butt) of a self-rolled mari- To swindle R juana cigarette School Boy Scotch Rainbows Robin Eggs Codeine and alcohol Tuinol Methamphetamine Score Raincoat Robo — Found some drugs Condom Robitussin placed in a bag and —To win Raggedy Andy huffed; usually Robitussin A-C, Scramble LSD which contains codeine, but often Weak heroin Raggedy Ann other forms (DM) are also used Scratch LSD Robo Party Money Rank Common in middle and high school; Screw Insult huffing party with Robitussin Informant; a prisoner who works for Rap Rock the warden To talk, to "bullshit"; also a type of A ball of crack cocaine the size of a Script Doctor rhythmic talk/singing BB pellet A doctor who can be taken advan- Real Gone Rock Crystal tage of by addicts to obtain drugs Terrific, beautiful An anesthetic that looks like cocaine Scut/Skot/Skut Red Bird Rocket Fuel Heroin

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Second Baseman Shabu Sherman Sticks/Sherms The second person to smoke in a so- Long-acting amphetamine; Ice Cigarettes soaked in PCP and cial round of crack Shake Dance smoked Seeds and Stems Strip Shin Battle Low-grade marijuana Shake n Bake Internal gang fight Sensamilla Mixing gelatin in its powdered form Shit A type of marijuana that is expen- into a bottle of cheap wine to change A generic term for any type of drug sive and considered to be high class; the taste and increase the number Shiv also very green, similar to home- of calories a person consumes. This Knife grown marijuana. practice is common among inner-city Shoot Set wine alcoholics. Inject intravenously Dance Shakes Short count Set (alt) Alcohol-induced tremor, as in "Ive To provide less than a stated or Paraphernalia needed to inject one- got the shakes." agreed on amount of drugs self with drugs; also known as Shank Short Go "works." Knife Getting high using small amounts of Seven Fourteen Shave a drug Quaaludes Morphine shavings Short Piece Sewer She Diluted drug Vein Cocaine Shotgun Using a bong to rapidly inhale mari- juana Skag Heroin Skid Heroin Skiing Being high on cocaine Skin Popping Injecting subcutaneously Skunk Weed Marijuana Slab Freebase cocaine Slammed In jail Slamus Jail Sleepers Barbiturates Sleepwalker An addict Slick — A person who uses drugs — Smooth talker Smack Heroin Smash Inhale cocaine; to huff through the nose Sniffer A person who huffs H202 Snip A cigarette butt

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Snort To inhale a substance through ones nose Snot Freebase methamphetamine Snow Cocaine Snow Bird Cocaine Snow Cone Cocaine Snow Flake Cocaine Snow Seal PCP Snow Toke Codeine and PCP Solid Gold Heroin Soma PCP Soma (alt) A frequently abused muscle relaxant Soma Doo A codeine-based cough syrup mixed with PCP Sound Talk Soup Talwin and Benadryl Speed Methamphetamine taken orally or in- jected into a vein Speedballing Mixing cocaine and heroin and in- jecting it into a vein Spit up The practice of drinking, but not swal- lowing, methadone, and then spit- ting it up into a cup. This can then be sold to "hags" or hard-up addicts. Squares Cigarettes Stash Supply of drugs Stasher A person, usually a woman, who looks innocent. This persons job is to hold drugs while others hawk or sell them State The state prison Steel Box Jail cell

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Steerer Tar Tulu A middleman in a robbery scam. The Heroin Toluene, a glue that is sniffed steerer takes a client from a hawker Tattoo Turkey to a stasher. A sheet of LSD A person that talks straight and sim- Stinkin Thinkin T-Cup ply Thinking like a drug addict thinks. A unit of selling crack cocaine; a T- Twenty Cent Piece Street Seller cup has one rock of cocaine, which A gram of cocaine in a glassine bag An independent drug dealer who as- sells for about $3. sumes a large risk for a small profit. Tea U Stretch Marijuana Uncle A drug that has been highly cut with Teacher Federal agent other substances LSD Uncle Milties Strung Out Tear n Chatter Meprobamate Physically addicted Crashing hard from a trip; when this Unkie Suds is seen, a "jack leg" doctor is called. Morphine Beer Tecala Unicorn Suitcasing Heroin A brand of acid Hiding something in the rectum (ie, Teddy and Betty Uppers packs of heroin) Talwin and pyribenzamine Benzedrine, Dexedrine Swag Thai Stick Up Quaaludes Spit up methadone A plant branch with buds that is Freebased cocaine Sweet Lucy wound (not braided) and can be used Uptown Cheap wine in a bong, pipe, or cigarette for a Cocaine Sweets euphoric feeling it provides USDA Amphetamines Thing Heroin Sweet Tarts Heroin User Amphetamines Tic Someone who uses drugs Swindle THC-PCP Utopiates Con TNT Hallucinogen Swing Man Police (Tactical Team) Supplier Tool V Synthetic Grass Male sex organ V THC; marijuana groomed to have a Toot Valium more potent effect. Normally, mari- To snort or sniff Vacuum Cleaner juana is 1.7% THC. The "manicured" Top Cocaine user plants can be groomed to provide 4% Dance Valley to 6% THC. (THC, tetrahydrocannabi- Tops Antecubital region; one of the first nol) A street dealer earns tops on each sites used for shooting IV drugs Syrup and Bean sale of a drug; ie, commission Venom Codeine-based cough syrup mixed Tranx Heroin with pills Tranquilizers Vice Spice System Trick Baby Spanish fly Marijuana or PCP A child born as a result of a union Viporeros between a prostitute and a john Crude coca paste T Trip Vodka Acid Tac Experience a euphoric feeling from Vodka with LSD mixed in it THC-PCP use of a drug Vonce Tadpole Ts and Blues The butt of a drug cigarette A young girl Talwin and parabenzamine, a popu- Voyager Take Home lar opiate mixture in the early Someone who uses psychedelic drugs Methadone in single-dose bottles, 1970s. The formula for Talwin was given when a methadone center will changed so that it no longer provides be closed for a few days so that an a euphoric feeling and is now used Weed addict will not miss a dose for medical purposes only. Marijuana

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Weight May be phentermine, LSD, or Nem- Quantity butal Weightless Yellow T High on crack PCP Whats pumping Yenning Which drugs are available for sale, Experiencing opium withdrawal or being used symptoms Whiskey Fits Yen Shee A seizure due to withdrawal from al- Opium cohol Yen Shee Baby White Lady Fecal impaction occurring secondary Heroin to opium use White Mole Yen Shee Suey Caffeine tablet Opium-laced wine White Out Yen Sleep An office supply intended for use in Opium-induced nod or sleep making corrections on paper, this Yerba fluid is snorted by addicts for a very Marijuana short high Yesco Whiting out Marijuana Sniffing White Out for a short high Ying Gee Wild Thing Marijuana Sex Yocaine Wizard Cheap cocaine LSD Woo A joint laced with straight or cooked Zebra cocaine A person who is half white and half Work black (mulato) If you have "work," then you have Zebra (alt) drugs to sell; used as in "Do you have Barbiturate work?" "Sure, what kind of work do Zombie you want? P?" PCP Works ZNA Paraphernalia needed to inject one- Mixing dill and monosodium gluta- self with drugs mate for an hallucinogenic effect

X X MDMA, an hallucinogenic ampheta- mine XTC MDMA, an hallucinogenic ampheta- mine

Yellow and Black Caffeine and phenylpropanolamine sold as speed Yellow and Clear Caffeine pill Yellow Barn Amphetamine Yellows

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