special lexicon PCP `Ad Diction Ary' of Angustitados A dysphoric feeling that cocaine can drug 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 alcohol 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 heroin 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 drug culture, 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 Hallucinogen May refer to amphetamine 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 drugs 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 (phencyclidine) 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" Special lexicon • Cymet JAOA • Vol 92 • No 4 • April 1992 • 433 special lexicon (continued) Bad Blood Beans Blade Syphilis Amphetamines 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) Amobarbital (Sodium Amytal) sold in test tubes. Benzedrine Blue Birds Bananas Benny Jag Barbiturates Banana peels smoked as a drug pro- Amphetamine intoxication Blue Devils vide a relaxing kind of dizziness 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 tobacco, 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 Opium Bombers (continued on page 436) 434 • JAOA • Vol 92 • No 4 • April 1992 Special lexicon • Cymet special lexicon ( continued) Marijuana Bombido An ampule of liquefied drug (usually amphetamine, may be heroin or bar- 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) 436 Special lexicon • Cymet special lexicon (continued) 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 depressant 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 tetrahydrocannabinol 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) 438 • JAOA • Vol 92 • No 4 • April 1992 Special lexicon • Cymet special lexicon (continued) 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 Sedative 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 Euphoria 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 secobarbital.