| STREET TERM |
DEFINITION |
| 007s |
Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) |
| 420 |
Marijuana use |
| 51 |
Combination of crack cocaine with marijuana or tobacco |
| A-boot |
Under the influence of drugs |
| Abandominiums |
Abandoned row houses where drugs are used |
| Acid head |
User of LSD |
| Ad |
PCP; drug addict |
| Agonies |
Withdrawal symptoms |
| All lit up |
Under the influence of drugs |
| All star |
User of multiple drugs |
| Amp head |
LSD user |
| Amped |
High on amphetamines |
| Amped-out |
Fatigue after using amphetamine |
| Amping |
Accelerated heartbeat |
| Are you anywhere? |
Do you use marijuana? |
| Around the turn |
Having gone through withdrawal period |
| Artillery |
Equipment for injecting drugs |
| Author |
Doctor who writes illegal prescriptions |
| Babe |
Drug used for detoxification |
| Baby habit |
Occasional use of drugs |
| Babysit |
Guide someone through first drug experience |
| Back door |
Residue left in a pipe |
| Back jack |
Injecting opium; to inject a drug |
| Backtrack |
Allow blood to flow back into a needle during injection |
| Backup |
To prepare a vein for injection |
| Bad go |
Bad reaction to a drug |
| Bag |
Container for drugs; a package of drugs, usually marijuana or heroin; a person's favorite drug |
| Bag bride |
Crack-smoking prostitute |
| Bag man |
Person who transports money; a person who supplies narcotics or other drugs, a pusher |
| Bagging |
Using inhalants |
| Banana split |
Combination of 2C-B (Nexus) with other illicit substances, particularly LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) |
| Bang |
Inhalants; to inject a drug |
| Banging |
Under the influence of drugs |
| Bars |
Heroin mixed with alprazolam |
| Base crazies |
Searching on hands and knees for cocaine or crack |
| Base head |
A person who bases |
| Based out |
To have lost control over basing |
| Batak |
Philippine street name for methamphetamine |
| Batt |
IV needle; hypodermic needle |
| Batted out |
Apprehended by law |
| Beamer |
Crack smoker |
| Bed bugs |
Fellow addicts |
| Bedbugs |
Fellow addicts |
| Beedies |
Cigarettes from India (resemble marijuana joints/vehicle for other drugs) |
| Belt |
Effects of drugs |
| Belted |
Under the influence of a drug |
| Belushi |
Combination of cocaine and heroin |
| Bender |
Drug party |
| Biker coffee |
Coffee mixed with methamphetamine |
| Bingers |
Crack addicts |
| Bingo |
To inject a drug |
| Bipping |
Snorting heroin and cocaine, either separately or together |
| Black hole |
The depressant high associated with ketamine |
| Blanks |
Low quality drugs |
| Blast |
Cocaine; Smoke crack; Marijuana; smoke marijuana or crack |
| Blasted |
Under the influence of drugs |
| Blaxing |
Smoking marijuana |
| Blazing |
Smoking marijuana |
| Bling bling |
Methamphetamine |
| Blow |
Cocaine; to inhale cocaine; to smoke marijuana; to inject heroin |
| Blow a fix/blow a shot |
Injection misses the vein and is wasted in the skin |
| Blow the vein |
To inject a drug |
| Blue |
Crack Cocaine; depressants; OxyContin |
| Boost |
Crack Cocaine; to steal; to inject a drug |
| Boost and shoot |
Steal to support a habit |
| Boot |
To inject a drug |
| Booted |
Under the influence of drugs |
| Boy-girl |
Heroin mixed with cocaine |
| Break night |
Staying up all night on a cocaine binge until daybreak |
| Bridge or bring up |
Ready a vein for injection |
| Broker |
Go between in a drug deal; heavy drug user |
| Buffer |
A woman who performs oral sex in exchange for crack; crack smoker |
| Bugged |
Irritated; to be covered with sores and abscesses from repeated use of unsterile needles |
| Bummer trip |
Unsettling and threatening experience from PCP intoxication |
| Bump |
Crack; fake crack; cocaine; boost a high; hit of ketamine ($20) |
| Bump up |
Use of cocaine to bolster MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine) |
| Bumping up |
Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) combined with powder cocaine |
| Burn the main line |
To inject a drug |
| Burned out |
Collapse of veins from repeated injections; permanent impairment from drug abuse |
| Burnout |
Heavy abuser of drugs |
| Buzz |
Under the influence of drugs |
| Cabbage head |
An individual who will use or experiment with any kind of drug |
| Cafeteria use |
Use of various drugs simultaneously, particularly sedatives or hypnotics |
| Cafeteria-style use |
Using a combination of different club drugs |
| Candy Raver |
Young people who attend raves; rave attendees who wear candy jewelry |
| Candy sticks |
Marijuana cigarettes laced with powdered cocaine |
| Cap |
Crack Cocaine; LSD; a capsule of a drug |
| Carry |
To be in posession of drugs |
| Cat killer |
Ketamine |
| Channel |
Vein into which a drug is injected |
| Channel swimmer |
One who injects heroin |
| Charged up |
Under the influence of drugs |
| Chasing the tiger |
To smoke heroin |
| Chicken scratch |
Searching on hands and knees for crack or cocaine |
| Chiefing |
To smoke marijuana |
| Chipper |
Occasional user; occasional heroin user; occasional Hispanic user |
| Chipping |
Using drugs occasionally |
| Choco-fan |
Heroin |
| Cigamos |
Combination of crack cocaine and tobacco |
| Clam bake |
Sitting inside a car or other small, enclosed space and smoking marijuana |
| Clear up |
Stop drug use |
| Cluck |
Crack smoker |
| Coasting |
Under the influence of drugs |
| Cocktail |
Combination of crack and marijuana; cigarette laced with cocaine or crack; partially smoked marijuana cigarette inserted in regular cigarette; to smoke cocaine in a cigarette |
| Cold turkey |
Sudden withdrawal from drugs |
| Come home |
End a "trip" from LSD |
| Connie |
Powder cocaine |
| Cook down |
Process in which users liquify heroin in order to inhale it |
| Cooker |
To inject a drug; person who manufactures methamphetamine |
| Cotton |
Currency; OxyContin |
| Cotton fever |
Critically high temperature associated with accidentally injecting cotton fibers into blood stream |
| Crack bash |
Combination of crack cocaine and marijuana |
| Crack Kits |
Glass pipe and copper mesh |
| Cracker jack |
Crack smoker |
| Cranking up |
To inject a drug |
| Crankster |
Someone who uses or manufatures methamphetamine |
| Crash |
Sleep off effects of drugs |
| Crisscrossing |
The practice of setting up a line of cocaine next to a line of heroin. The user places a straw in each nostril and snorts about half of each line. Then the straws are crossed and the remaining lines are snorted |
| Cushion |
Vein into which a drug is injected |
| Dabble |
Use drugs occasionally |
| Demo |
Crack stem; sample-size quantity of crack |
| Dinosaurs |
Populations of heroin users in their forties and fifties |
| Dipped joints |
Marijuana combined with PCP and formaldehyde |
| Dirties |
Marijuana cigarettes with powder cocaine added to them |
| Disease |
Drug of choice |
| Diviner's sage |
Salvia Divinorum |
| Dog |
Good friend |
| Dope fiend |
A person who is drug dependent; crack adict |
| Draw up |
To inject a drug |
| Drop |
To swallow drugs |
| Drop dead |
Fentanyl |
| Dropper |
To inject a drug |
| Dropping |
Wrapping methamphetamine in bread and then consuming it |
| Dry up |
To inject drugs |
| Due |
Residue of oils trapped in a pipe after smoking base |
| Dujre |
Heroin |
| Dump |
To vomit after taking drugs |
| E-puddle |
Sleeping due to MDMA use/exhaustion |
| Eating |
Taking a drug orally |
| El Gallo ("rooster") |
Marijuana |
| El Perico ("parrot") |
Cocaine |
| Elephant flipping |
Use of PCP and MDMA |
| Emergency gun |
Instrument used to inject other than a syringe |
| Explorers club |
Group of LSD users |
| Fast |
Methamphetamine |
| Fat Albert |
Fentanyl |
| Feenin |
Behavior associated with a person craving cocaine or other addictive substances when they are unavailable |
| Fiend |
Someone who smokes marijuana alone |
| Fire |
Crack and methamphetamine; to inject a drug |
| Five-way |
Combines snorting of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, ground up flunitrazepam pills, and drinking alcohol |
| Fix |
To inject a drug |
| Flag |
Appearance of blood in the vein |
| Flame cooking |
Smoking cocaine base by putting the pipe over a stove flame |
| Flash |
LSD; the rush of cocaine injection |
| Flipping |
Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) |
| Flying |
Under the influence of drugs |
| Following that cloud |
Searching for drugs |
| Four Loko |
Caffeinated malt liquor; also known as "blackout in a can" |
| Frontloading |
The process of tranferring a drug solution from one syringe to another |
| Fuete |
Hypodermic needle |
| G |
$1000 or 1 gram of drugs; term for an unfamiliar male; Gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB) |
| G-shot |
Small dose of drugs used to hold off withdrawal symptoms until full dose can be taken |
| Gaffus |
Hypodermic needle |
| Gangster |
Marijuana; person who uses or manufactures methamphetamine |
| Garbage heads |
Users who buy crack from street dealers instead of cooking it themselves |
| Geezer |
To inject a drug |
| Geezin a bit of dee gee |
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 |
| Getting glassed |
To snort methamphetamine |
| Getting snotty |
Using heroin |
| Ghostbusting |
Smoking cocaine; searching for white particles in the belief that they are crack |
| Gimmick |
Drug injection equipment |
| Give wings |
Inject someone or teach someone to inject heroin |
| Glading |
Using inhalant |
| Glass |
Heroin; amphetamine; hypodermic needle; methamphetamine |
| Glass gun |
Hypodermic needle |
| Gluey |
One who sniffs or inhales glue |
| Go into a sewer |
To inject a drug; inject in the vein |
| Gone, Shot to the curb |
Lost everything to crack |
| Good lick |
Good drugs |
| Graduate |
Completely stop using drugs; progress to stronger drugs |
| Gravy |
Heroin; to inject a drug |
| Greek |
Combination of marijuana and powder cocaine |
| Ground control |
The guide or caretaker during a hallucinogenic experience |
| Gun |
To inject a drug; needle; hypodermic needle |
| Gutter |
Vein into which a drug is injected |
| Gutter junkie |
Addict who relies on others to obtain drugs |
| Gym candy |
Steroids |
| Hammerheading |
MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine) used in combination with Viagra |
| Handlebars |
Combination of crack cocaine and alprazolam |
| Happy stick |
Marijuana and PCP combination |
| Hayron |
Heroin |
| He-she |
Heroin mixed with cocaine |
| Henpecking |
Searching on hands and knees for crack |
| Highbeams |
The wide eyes of a person on crack |
| Hippieflip |
Use of mushrooms and MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine) |
| 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 |
| Hitter
|
Little pipe designed for only one hit
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| Hitters
|
People who inject others who have hard to find veins in exchange for drugs
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| Hitting up
|
To inject a drug
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| Holding
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Possessing drugs
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| Honeymoon
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Early stages of drug use before addiction or dependency develops
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| Hooked
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Addicted
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| Hopped up
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Under the influence of drugs
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| Horn
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To inhale cocaine; Crack pipe; to inhale a drug
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| Hot load/hot shot
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Lethal injection of a narcotic
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| Hot rolling
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Liquefying methamphetamine in an eye dropper and then inhaling it
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| Hotrailing
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To heat methamphetamine and inhale the vapor through nose using a plastic tube
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| Hubba pigeon
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Crack users looking for rocks on the floor after a police raid
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| Huffer
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Inhalant abuser
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| Huffing
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To sniff an inhalant
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| Hugs and Kisses
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Combination of methamphetamine and methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)
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| Hulling
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Using others to get drugs
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| Hype
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Heroin addict; an addict; methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)
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| Hype stick
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Hypodermic needle
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| Ice cream habit
|
Occasional use of drugs
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| Incredible hulk
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Fentanyl
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| Jab/job
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To inject a drug
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| Jack
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Steal someone else's drugs
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| Jack-up
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To inject a drug
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| Jag
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Keep a high going
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| Jet fuel
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PCP; methamphetamine; methamphetamine combined with PCP (phencyclidine)
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| Jive
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Marijuana; heroin; drugs
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| Jolly pop
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Casual user of heroin
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| Jolt
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Strong reaction to drugs; to inject a drug
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| Jonesing
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Need for drugs
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| Joy pop
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To inject a drug
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| Joy popping
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Occasional use of drugs
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| Joy stick
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Marijuana cigarette; marijuana and PCP combination
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| Junkie
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Addict
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| Junkie kits
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Glass pipe and copper mesh
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| K-hole
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Periods of ketamine-induced confusion; the depressant high associated with ketamine
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| Kick
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Inhalants; getting off a drug habit
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| Kiddie dope
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Prescription drugs
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| Kit
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Equipment used to inject drugs
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| Kitty flipping
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Use of ketamine and MDMA
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| Klingons
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Crack addicts
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| La Chiva ("goat")
|
Heroin
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| Lady
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Cocaine; heroin
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| Laugh and scratch
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To inject a drug
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| Lay-out
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Equipment for taking drugs
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| Leaping
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Under the influence of drugs
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| Legal speed
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Over the counter asthma drug; trade name-MiniThin
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| Lemonade
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Heroin; poor quality drugs
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| Lethal injection
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Fentanyl
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| Lipton Tea
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Poor quality drugs
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| Lit up
|
Under the influence of drugs
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| Lithium
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Better grade methamphetamine
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| Lithium scabs
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Open scabs and skin lesions due to methamphetamine abuse
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| Little boy
|
Heroin
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| Loaded
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High
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| Loused
|
Covered by sores and abscesses from repeated use of unsterile needles
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| Love flipping
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Use of mescaline and MDMA
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| Loveboat
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PCP; combination of PCP and marijuana
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| Mainline
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To inject a drug
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| Mainliner
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Person who injects into the vein
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| Meth head
|
Methamphetamine regular user
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| Meth monster
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One who has a violent reaction to methamphetamine
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| Methnecks
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Methamphetamine addicts
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| Mighty white
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A form of crack cocaine that is hard, white, and pure
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| Miss
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To inject a drug
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| Mix
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A term used to refer to cocaine or a drug environment
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| Molly
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Refers to the purest form of methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)
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| Monkey
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Cigarette made from cocaine paste and tobacco; drug dependency; heroin
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| Mouth worker
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One who takes drugs orally
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| Nexus flipping
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Use of Nexus (2-CB) and MDMA
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| Nickelonians
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Crack addicts
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| Nix
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Stranger among the group
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| OCs
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OxyContin
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| Old navy
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Heroin
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| On a mission
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Searching for crack and/or being high on crack
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| On a trip
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Under the influence of drugs
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| On the bricks
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Walking the streets
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| On the nod
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Under the influence of narcotics or depressant
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| One way
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LSD; heroin
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| Os
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OxyContin
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| Ox
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OxyContin
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| P and P
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Methamphetamine used in combination with MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine) and Viagra
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| Panic
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Drugs not available
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| Parachute down
|
Use of MDMA after heroin
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| Party and play
|
Methamphetamine used in combination with MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine) and Viagra
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| Party pack
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Combination of 2C-B (Nexus) with other illicit drugs, particulary MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine; ecstasy)
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| Peeper(s)
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MDMA user(s)
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| Pepsi habit
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Occasional use of drugs
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| Pharming
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Consuming a mixture of prescription substances
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| Picking
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Searching on hands and knees for cocaine or crack
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| Piggybacking
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Simultaneous injection of 2 drugs; sequential use of more than one methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) tablet
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| Pills
|
OxyContin
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| Ping-in-wing
|
To inject a drug
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| Pipe
|
Crack pipe; marijuana pipe; vein into which a drug is injected; mix drugs with other substances
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| Plant
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Hiding place for drugs
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| Po coke
|
Methamphetamine
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| Pop
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To inhale cocaine; crack cocaine
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| Premos
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Marijuana joints laced with crack cocaine
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| Primo turbo
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Combination of crack cocaine and marijuana
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| Puffer
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Crack smoker
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| Pumpers
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Steroids
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| Purple drank
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Mixture of promethazine with codeine syrup and other substances
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| Pusher
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Metal hanger or umbrella rod used to scrape residue out of crack stems; one who sells drugs
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| Rave
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All night dance parties frequently designed to enhance a hallucinogenic experience through music and lights
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| Razed
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Under the influence of drugs
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| Red
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Under the influence of drugs; methamphetamine
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| Res
|
Potent residue left as a result of smoking crack which is scraped and smoked
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| Riding the wave
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Under the influence of drugs
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| Rig
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Equipment used to inject drugs
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| Ripped
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To be under the influence of drugs
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| Ript
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To be under the influence of drugs
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| Rock star
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Female who trades sex for crack or money to buy crack; a person who uses rock cocaine
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| Rockette
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Female who uses crack
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| Roid rage
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Aggressive behavior caused by excessive steroid use
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| Roller
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To inject a drug
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| Satch cotton
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Fabric used to filter a solution of narcotics before injection
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| Serial speedballing
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Sequencing cocaine, cough syrup, and heroin over a 1-2 day period
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| Sewer
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Vein into which a drug is injected
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| Sextasy
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Ecstasy used with Viagra
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| Sharps
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Hypodermic needles
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| Shoot/shoot up
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To inject a drug
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| Shooting gallery
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Place where drugs are used
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| Shot
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To inject a drug; an amount of cocaine; 10 shot or 20 shot
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| Shot down
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Under the influence of drugs
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| Shot to the curb
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A person who has lost it all to crack
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| Shotgun
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Inhaling marijuana smoke forced into one's mouth by another's exhaling
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| Skeegers/skeezers
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Crack-smoking prostitute
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| Sketching
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Coming down from a speed induced high
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| Skied
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Under the influence of drugs
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| Skin popping
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Injecting drugs under the skin; to inject drugs on any part of the body without hitting a vein
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| Skittles
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Coricidin HBP Pills
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| Skittling
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Abuse of cold tablets containing dextromethorphan (a cough suppressant)
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| Slam
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To inject a drug
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| Slanging
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Selling drugs
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| Sleeper and red devil
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Herion plus a depressant
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| Slum
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PCP (phencyclidine)
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| Smoke-out
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Under the influence of drugs
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| Snackies
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Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) adulterated with mescaline
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| Sniff
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To inhale cocaine; methcathinone; inhalants
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| Snorting
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Using inhalant
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| Snotballs
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Rubber cement rolled into balls, burned and the fumes are inhaled
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| Speed freak
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Habitual user of methamphetamine
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| Speedballing
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To shoot up or smoke a mixture of cocaine and heroin; ecstasy mixed with ketamine; the simultaneous use of a stimulant with a depressant
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| Speedballs-nose-style
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The practice of snorting cocaine
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| Speedies
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Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) adulterated with amphetamine
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| Spike
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Heroin cut with scopolamine or strychnine; to inject a drug; needle; hypodermic needle
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| Split
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Adulterated drugs; to leave; half and half or to leave
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| Spoon
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1/16 ounce of heroin; paraphernalia used to prepare heroin for injection
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| Sprung
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Person just starting to use drugs
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| Stackers
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Steroids
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| Stacking
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Taking steroids without a prescription; use of three or more methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) tablets in combination
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| Stacks
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Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) adulterated with heroin or crack
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| Stash
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Place to hide drugs
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| Sticky icky
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Marijuana
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| Stoned
|
Under the influence of drugs
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| Strawberry Quik
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Strawberry-flavored methamphetamine
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| Strung out
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Heavily addicted to drugs
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| Super X
|
Combination of methamphetamine and methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)
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| Syrup
|
Combination of marijuana and cough syrup
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| Tecatos
|
Hispanic heroin addict
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| The five way
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Heroin plus cocaine plus methamphetamine plus Rohypnol (flunitrazepam) plus alcohol
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| Thing
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Cocaine; Crack Cocaine; heroin; main drug interest at the momement.
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| Thirst monster
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Crack smoker
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| Tie
|
To inject a drug
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| Tio
|
Cocaine-laced marijuana cigarette
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| TNT
|
Heroin plus fentanyl
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| Tools
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Equipment used for injecting drugs
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| Torch cooking
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Smoking cocaine base by using a propane or butaine torch as a source of flame
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| Totally spent
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Hangover feeling that is an adverse effect of methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)
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| Track
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To inject a drug
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| Tracks
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Row of needle marks on a person
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| Trails
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Cocaine; LSD induced perception that moving objects leave multiple images or trails behind them
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| Train
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Heroin
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| Trap
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Hiding place for drugs
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| Trays
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Bunches of vials
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| Trees
|
Marijuana
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| Triple C's
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Coricidin HBP pills
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| Trippin'
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High on drugs
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| Turned on
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Introduced to drugs; under the influence
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| Tweak mission
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A person on a mission to find crack
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| Tweaker
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Crack user looking for drugs on the floor after a police raid
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| Tweaking
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Drug-induced paranoia; peaking on speed; desperately searching for crack
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| Twists
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Small plastic bags of heroin secured with a twist tie
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| Viper
|
Marijuana smoker
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| Wasted
|
Under the influence of drugs; murdered
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| Weight trainers
|
Steroids
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| Weightless
|
High on crack
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| Wet sticks
|
Marijuana combined with PCP and formaldehyde
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| Whites
|
Amphetamine; folded paper used to package drugs
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| Wigging
|
Odd behavior resulting from the use of mind-altering drugs
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| Woola blunt
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Marijuana and heroin combination
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| Woolie
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Marijuana and heroin combination; marijuana and crack cocaine combination
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| Woolie blunt
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Combination of crack cocaine and marijuana
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| Wooties
|
Crack smoked in marijuana joints
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| Works
|
Equipment for injecting drugs
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| Yellow jackets
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Depressants; methamphetamine
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| Yellows
|
Depressants
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| Yen sleep
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Restless, drowsy state after LSD use
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| Zombie
|
PCP; heavy user of drugs
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| Zonked
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Extremely high on drugs
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