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The following points for considerationregarding recent changes in alcohol and drugterminology were developed as a resource forentertainment development and production.They are not meant to limit the creative process.
Alcohol and Drug Terminology:◆ Please use phrases such as “the abuse of alcohol” and “the abuse of drugs” rather than“substance abuse.”
◆ The term “use” should be used rather than“abuse” when making statements about peoplewho should not drink alcohol: youth (anyoneunder 21 years of age), pregnant women, recov-ering alcoholics, or operators of motor vehicles.
◆ Because drug use should not be consideredrecreational, avoid the term “recreational use ofdrugs,” which trivializes drug-taking behavior.
◆ “Mood altering” tends to be a weak and inac-curate description of the powerful physiologicaleffect that drugs have on the mind. It is recom-mended that the phrase “mind altering” be used.
◆ To focus attention on circumstances andenvironments rather than label youth, the terms “youth at risk for alcohol and drug use” or “youth in high-risk environments” are pre-ferable to the term “high-risk youth.”
Illicit Drug Use:◆ All drugs are either “illicit” or “licit;” their usecan be either “illegal” or “legal.” For example,
the purchase or public possession of alcohol, alicit drug, is illegal for underage youth, as is theuse of prescription drugs by someone other thanthe person for whom it was prescribed or in amanner contrary to that of its intended use.
◆ When referring to illicit drugs, please do not describe them as “hard” or “soft,” becausethese terms can imply that some drugs are virtually harmless.
◆ Whenever possible, use “injected drugs,”“injection drug use,” or “injecting drug abuser”rather than “IV drugs,” “IV drug use,” or “IVdrug abuser.” The term “IV” or “intravenous” has a distinctly medical connotation, and its use in this context may raise concern about medically appropriate procedures.
Impaired Driving:◆ Since a person does not need to be drunk to be physically impaired, it is suggested thatphrases such as “alcohol-impaired driving” or“drug-impaired driving” be substituted for“drunk driving” or “drugged driving.”
◆ The term “accident” when referring to analcohol or drug-related collision suggests thatthe incident could not have been prevented or that no one was at fault. Use of the word“crash” (i.e., drug-related crash or alcohol-related crash) is preferred.
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AAbe – $5 worth of drugs.Acapulco Gold – A very potent strain of
marijuana from Acapulco, Mexico.Acid – LSD.Acid Head – User of LSD; “Acid Freak”.Ad – A drug addict.Adam – MDMAAgonies – Symptoms of withdrawal.All-Star – A person who uses multiple drugs.Alley Juice – Very cheap wine; “Grapes”.Amping – The accelerated heartbeat that
results from the use of a stimulant.Angel – PCP.Angel Dust – PCP.Angel Hair – PCP.Angel Mist – PCP.Artillery –Equipment for injecting drugs.Author – A doctor who writes illegal
prescriptions.
BB – A matchbox-full of marijuana.B-40 – A cigar laced with marijuana and dipped
in malt liquor.Babe – Drug used for detoxification.Babysit – To guide someone through his or her
first drug experience.Backjack – To inject a drug.Backtrack – To allow blood to flow back into
a needle during injection.Backup – To prepare a vein for injection; per-
mitting blood to back up into a syringe to ensure that the needle is in a vein.
Bad trip – Unpleasant LSD experience.Bag – Packet of drugs, usually a standard
amount for sale.Bagging – Using an inhalant.Bag Man – Person who transports money.Balloon – Small amount of contained narcotics.Bang – To inject a drug.Barbs – Barbiturates; “downers”; “reds”.Base – Smoking cocaine through a pipe.Batt – A needle used for intravenous drug use.Beamer – A crack smoker.Bean – Capsules for drugs.Belushi – Cocaine and heroin.Bennies – Benzedrine; “peaches”.Big C – Cocaine.Big Chief – Mescaline.Bindle – A small packet of drug powder.Black Beauties/Black Hollies – Amphetamines.Black Russian – Hashish.Blasted – High on drugs.Blaze – Marijuana.Blotters – LSD.Blow – Smoke marijuana; sniff cocaine.Blow a Fix – When an injection misses the vein
and is wasted in the skin; also “blow a shot”.Blow the Vein – To inject a drug.Blues – Valium.Blunts – A cigar slit open and filled with
marijuana.Bombita – Mixture of cocaine and heroin.Bone – Tobacco.Bong – A large pipe used for smoking drugs.Boost – To steal; to inject a drug.Boot – To inject a drug.Booze – Alcohol.
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Boy – Heroin.Break Night – Staying up all night on a
cocaine binge.Brick – A kilogram (2.2 pounds) of marijuana.Broker – A go-between in a drug deal.Brown Sugar – Heroin.Buds – Marijuana.Bumble Bees – Amphetamine.Bundle – Multiple bags of a drug.Burn – Cheated by a pusher.Burnout – One who heavily abuses drugs.Busted – Arrested on a drug-related charge.Buttons – Peyote or mushrooms.Buzz – A drug-induced high.
CCactus – Mescaline or peyote.Cadillac – One ounce; also “cad”.Cad – One ounce.Candy – Barbiturates or cocaine.Candyman – Drug supplier.Caps – Psilocybin.Cartwheels – Amphetamines.Channel – A vein into which a drug is injected.Chasing the Dragon – A particular way of
inhaling crack mixed with heroin.China White – A very pure white heroin.Chipping – Occasional use of drugs.Chiva – Heroin.Clean – Drug free; not having drugs in
one’s possession.Cocktail – A cigarette laced with crack; a
cigarette in which a partially-smoked marijuana cigarette has been inserted.
Coke – Cocaine.Coke Broke – Financially incapacitated from
supporting a cocaine habit.Colombo – Marijuana grown in Columbia.Connect – To purchase drugs; a supplier of
illegal drugs.Cook Down – Process in which users liquefy
heroin to inhale it.Cooker – A person who manufactures
methamphetamine.Co-Pilots – Amphetamine.Crack Gallery – Place where crack is bought
and sold.Crack House – A place where crack is used.Crack Kits – Glass pipe and copper mesh.
Crank – Methamphetamine.Cranking Up – To inject a drug.Crankster – A person who uses or manufactures
methamphetamine.Crash – To sleep off the effects of drugs.Criss-Crossing – The practice of setting up
a line of cocaine next to a line of heroin.The user places a straw in each nostril andsnorts about half a line of each. Then thestraws are crossed and the remaining linesare snorted.
Croak – Methamphetamine.Crypto – Methamphetamine.Crystals – Methamphetamine.Cube – One ounce.Cushion – A vein into which a drug is injected.
DDagga – South African word for marijuana.Deck – A packet of drugs.Designer Drugs – Altered, usually man-made,
versions of illegal drugs that are createdand put into use before law enforcementofficials can classify them as illegal.
Dexies – Amphetamine.Dime Bag – $10 worth of drugs.Dollies – Methadone.Dope – Marijuana.Downs – Depressants such as barbiturates
or tranquilizers.Dried Out – Having gone through a with-
drawal program for drugs or alcohol.Drunk Pills – Valium.Dust – Narcotics in a powder form.Dusting – Sprinkling a narcotic powder on
another drug such as PCP or marijuana.Dynamite – High-quality, potent drugs.
EEcstasy – MDMA.Eight Ball – An eighth of an ounce of cocaine
and heroin or other drugs.Elephant – PCP.Explorers’ Club – A group of LSD users.
FFire – To inject a drug, methamphetamine.Fizzies – Methadone.
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Flake – Cocaine.Football – Amphetamine.
GG – $1,000 or 1 gram of drugs.Ganja – The Jamaican word for marijuana.Georgia Home Boy – Gamma-Hydroxybutyric
Acid (GHB)Glading – Using an inhalant.Glass – Methamphetamine.Gluey – A glue sniffer.Goodfella – Fentanyl-based drugs.Goofballs – Barbiturates.Goop – Gamma-Hydroxybutyric Acid (GHB)Grass – Marijuana, hash.
HH – Heroin.Half Life – The amount of time it takes the body
to remove half of a drug from its system.Happy Dust – Cocaine.Hash – Hashish.Head Shop – Store specializing in the sale
of drug paraphernalia.Hearts – Amphetamine.Heavenly Blue – Morning glory seeds; LSD.Herb – Marijuana, hash.Hit – Crack or marijuana to be smoked;
the amount of a drug consumed in a single use.
Hog – PCP.Horse – Heroin.Hot Shot – Fatal injection of drugs.Huatari – Mescaline.Huffing – Using inhalants.
IIce – A smokable and highly addictive form
of methamphetamine.Ice Cream Habit – Occasional drug use.Isomerizer – Used to increase potency of
THC in marijuana.
JJack – To steal someone else’s drugs.Jag – Extended period of using a drug.Jonesing – To crave drugs.Joy Popping – Occasional use of drugs.
Juice – Alcohol, anabolic steroids.Junk – Heroin, so named because it is rarely
pure when sold on the street.Junkie – An addict.
KK – Ketamine hydrochloride.Ketalar – Ketamine hydrochloride.Kickback – Relapse back into drug use.Kiddie Dope – Prescription drugs.Kif – North African word for marijuana.Kilo – 1,000 grams or 2.2 pounds; also “key”.Kit – Equipment used to inject drugs.
LLady – Cocaine.Leapers – Amphetamines.Leary’s – LSDLid – One ounce of marijuana.Liquid Ecstasy – Gamma-Hydroxybutyric
Acid (GHB)Liquid X – Gamma-Hydroxybutyric Acid
(GHB)Locker Room – Butyl nitrate.Ludes – Methaqualone; quaaludes, Valium.
MMagic Mushrooms – Hallucinogenic
mushrooms that are sold fresh, dried, or frozen; psilocybin.
Mary Jane – Marijuana.Matchbox – Measurement for a small amount
of marijuana.Mesc – Mescaline.Mescaline – A hallucinogen that is taken orally.Meth – Methamphetamine.Microdot – LSD.Mud – Heroin.Mushies – Hallucinogenic mushrooms that
are sold fresh, dried, or frozen.
NNarc – Narcotic agent.New Ecstasy – Ketamine hydrochloride.Nickel bag – $5 worth of drugs.Nitrous Oxide – An inhalant used for laughing
gas; also the propellant found in store-bought whipped cream cans.
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Nose Candy – Cocaine.Nugget – Marijuana.
OOn the Nod – Under the influence of narcotics
or depressants.O.Z. – One ounce.Ozone – PCP.
PPeace Pill – PCP.Peanuts – Barbiturates.Pearly Gates – LSD.Pep Pills – Amphetamine.Pipe – An instrument used to smoke cocaine
or other substances.Poppers – Amyl nitrate capsules.Pot – Marijuana, hash.Power Hitter – A device (often plastic) used
to deliver a blast of marijuana smoke to the lungs.
Purple Passion – Psilocybin.
QQuaalude – Methaqualone.Quarter – 1/4 ounce or $25 worth of drugs.
RReefer – Marijuana.Rig – The paraphernalia for injecting drugs.Ritalin – Methylphenidate.Rhoids – Anabolic steroids.Roach – The butt of a marijuana cigarette that
remains after the cigarette is smoked.Roche – Rohypnol.Robo-ing – Drinking Robitussin with codeine.Rocket Fuel – PCP.Rocks – Cocaine, crack.Rock Star – A person who uses rock cocaine;
a female who trades sex for crack or moneyto buy crack.
Roofies – Rohypnol.Rohypnol – The “date-rape” drug; a sedative
that, when mixed with alcohol, can inca-pacitate a person; can be fatal when usedwith alcohol and/or other depressants, flunitrazepam.
Rope – Rohypnol.Rophies – Rohypnol.Royal Blue – LSD.Rush – Butyl nitrate.
SSam – A federal narcotics agent.Sauce – Alcohol.Scat – Heroin.Script Writer – A doctor willing to write
a prescription for faked symptoms.Scoop – Gamma-Hydroxybutyric Acid (GHB).Shaker/Baker/Water – Materials needed to
freebase cocaine: shaker bottle, bakingsoda, water.
Sherms – Cigars dipped in or laced with PCP;a cigarette that has been dipped inembalming fluid.
Shooting Gallery – A place where drugs are used.
Shrooms – Hallucinogenic mushrooms that aresold fresh, dried, or frozen; psilocybin.
Skag – Heroin.Smack – Heroin.Smoke – Tobacco.Sniffer Bag – $5 bag of heroin intended
for inhalation.Snow – Cocaine.Snowbirds – Cocaine.Somatomax – Gamma-Hydroxybutyric
Acid (GHB).Space Base – Crack mixed with PCP.Special K – Ketamine hydrochloride.Speed – Amphetamine, methamphetamine,
methylphenidate.Speedballing – To inject or smoke a mixture
of cocaine and heroin.Sugar Cubes – LSD.Superman – LSD blotter with Superman
imprint.
TTabs – LSD.Taste – A small sample of drugs.Tea – Marijuana.Thai Sticks – Marijuana laced with opium.Thoroughbred – A dealer known for traffick-
ing in pure narcotics.
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Toke – Inhaling marijuana or hashish smoke.Tolley – Toluene; a cheap, extremely harmful
paint solvent.Tracks – Rows of needle marks on an injection
drug user.Trips – LSD.Tweezes – A wild variety of psilocybin
mushrooms.Twist – Small plastic bag of heroin secured
with a twist tie.
UUncle – A federal agent.Uppers – Amphetamine.Ups – Amphetamine.Uzi – A cocaine pipe.
VV’s Blues – Valium.
WWedding Bells – LSD.Weightless – High on crack.West Coast – Methylphenidate.Whack – Crack/PCP mixture or marijuana
laced with insecticides.Whippets – Cartridges containing nitrous
oxide; inhalants.White – Cocaine.White Cross – Methamphetamine.Window Pane – LSD.
XXTC – MDMA; ecstasy.
YYellow Jackets – Nembutal, a barbiturate.Yuppie Flu – The ongoing effects of a cocaine
snorting habit.
ZZigZag – A brand of rolling papers used to
make marijuana cigarettes.Zips – One ounce of any type of drug.
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I. Stimulants
Drug TerminologyCommonly Abused Substances and Their Effects
Substance Street How Name Names Effects Consumed
Amphetamine Speed, Uppers, Ups,Hearts, Black Beauties, Pep Pills, CoPilots, Bumble Bees, Benzedrine,Dexedrine, Dexies,Footballs, Black Hollies,Biphetamine
Addiction, irritability, anxiety,increased blood pressure, paranoia/psychosis, depression,aggression, convulsions, dilatedpupils and blurred vision, dizziness, sleeplessness, loss of appetite; malnutrition,increased body temperature,increased risk of exposure to HIV, hepatitis, and other infectious diseases if injected
Injected, oral,smoked, snorted
Cocaine Coke, Crack, Nose Candy,Flake, Rocks, Blow, Big C,Snow, Lady, Snowbirds,White
Addiction, pupil dilation, elevatedblood pressure and heart rate,increased respiratory rate,increased risk of exposure to HIV,hepatitis, and other infectious diseases if injected, paranoia,seizures, heart attack, respiratoryfailure, constricted peripheralblood vessels, restlessness, irri-tability, anxiety, loss of appetite,tactile hallucinations, insomnia,increased body temperature,death from overdose
Injected, smoked,snorted
Crack Rock, Freebase Same as cocaine Heated andsmoked in a pipe
Ecstasy XTC, Adam, MDMA Psychiatric disturbances includingpanic, anxiety, depression, andparanoia, muscle tension, nausea,blurred vision, sweating, increasedheart rate and blood pressure,tremors, hallucinations, reducedappetite, sleep problems
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Fentanyl-based Designer drugs, SyntheticHeroin, Goodfella
Increased respiratory paralysis,potency creates strong possibilityfor overdose, increased risk of exposure to HIV, hepatitis and other infectious diseases if injected, many of the sameeffects as heroin
Injected, sniffed,smoked
GammaHydroxybutyric Acid
GHB, Liquid Ecstasy,Somatomax, Scoop, Liquid X, Georgia Home Boy, Goop
Liver failure, vomiting, tremors,seizures, comas, fatal respiratoryproblems
Snorted, orally in liquid form,smoked, mixedinto drinks
Methamphetamine Speed, Meth, Crank,Crystal Ice, Fire, Croak, Crypto, White Cross, Glass
Irritability, anxiety, increasedblood pressure, paranoia/psy-chosis, aggression, nervousness,hyperthermia, compulsive behavior, stroke, depression
Injected, oral,smoked, snorted
Methylphenidate Ritalin, Speed, West Coast Loss of appetite, fevers, convulsions, and severeheadaches, irregular heartbeat and respiration, paranoia, hallucinations, delusions
Tablet is crushedand the powder isinjected or snorted
Anabolic Steroids Rhoids, Juice Liver cancer, sterility, aggression,depression, acne, mood swings
Oral, injected into muscle
Inhalants Laughing Gas, Wippets,Sniffing, Glue, Poppers,Boppers, Snappers
Headache, muscle weakness,abdominal pain, severe moodswings and violent behavior,numbness and tingling of hands and feet, nausea, nose-bleeds, decreases in heart and respiratory rates
Vapors are inhaled
Lysergic AcidDiethylamide (LSD)
Acid, Microdot, Tabs,Trips, Hits, Sugar Cubes
Elevated body temperature and blood pressure, suppressedappetite, sleeplessness, tremors,chronic recurring hallucinations
Tabs taken orallyor gelatin/liquidput in eyes
Marijuana/Hash Blunt, Grass, Herb, Pot, Reefer, Dope, Ganja, Mary Jane
Bloodshot eyes, dry mouth andthroat, impaired or reduced comprehension, altered sense oftime, reduced ability to performtasks requiring concentration andcoordination, paranoia
Oral, smoked
Phencyclidine (PCP) Angel Dust, Ozone,Rocket Fuel, Peace Pill
Hallucinations, “out-of-body”experiences, impaired motorcoordination, anxiety, aggressivebehavior and violence, panic,paranoia
Injected, oral,smoked, snorted
Psilocybin Magic Mushroom, PurplePassion, Shrooms, Caps
Increased blood pressure, sweat-ing, nausea, hallucinations
Eaten or brewedand drunk in tea
II. Hallucinogens and Other Compounds
Substance Street How Name Names Effects Consumed
I. Stimulants (continued)
(Nitrous Oxide, Wippets,Aerosol Sprays, CleaningFluids, Solvents)
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Tobacco Smoke, Bone, Chew, Dip,Snuff, Cancer Sticks
Heart and cardiovascular disease,cancer of the lung, larynx, esoph-agus, mouth; emphysema andchronic bronchitis
Smoked, absorbedthrough mucousmembranes in themouth
Flunitrazepam Rohypnol, Roach, Roofies,Rope, Rophies, R2
Blackouts with a complete loss ofmemory, dizziness and disorienta-tion, nausea, difficulty with motormovements and speaking
Orally in pill form,dissolved in adrink, snorted
Heroin Mud, Brown Sugar, Junk,Horse, Smack
Slowed and slurred speech, slowgait, reduced appetite, constipa-tion, “nodding off”
Injected, smoked,snorted
KetamineHydrochloride
Special K, K, New Ecstasy,Ketalar
Delirium, amnesia, impairedmotor function
Snorted, smoked
Alcohol Booze, Juice, Sauce Dizziness, slurred speech, disturbed speech, nausea, vomiting, impaired motor skills
Oral
III. Opiates/Opiate-Like
IV. Depressants
Substance Street How Name Names Effects Consumed
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