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DISCLAIMER: This is a glossary of street terminology, gathered using several resources including personal experience and knowledge, for opiates and opioids . It is imperative that this list is viewed as incomplete and outdated. Slang is not the same in every state, city or even town, and you wouldn't want to assume that a particular term has one meaning; it is dangerous to do that.

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[ A ]

AC/DC — codeine cough syrup
Agonies — withdrawal symptoms
Ah-pen-yen — opium
AIP — heroin from Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan
Al Capone — heroin
Amidone — methadone
Antifreeze — heroin
Apache — fentanyl
Aries — heroin
Aunt Hazel — heroin
Aunti — opium
Aunti Emma — opium
Author — doctor who writes illegal prescriptions

[ B ]

Back jack — injecting opium
Bad bundle — inferior quality heroin; damaged heroin
Balloon — heroin supplier; balloon containing narcotics
Ballot — heroin
Bang — to inject a drug
Barr — codeine cough syrup
Bart Simpson — heroin
Batman — cocaine; heroin
Batt — IV/hypodermic needle
Beans — OxyContin; Percocet
Big bag — heroin
Big guys — 80 mg OxyContin pills or generic equivalent
Big H — heroin
Big Harry — heroin
Big O — opium
Bin Laden — heroin (post-9/11)
Bindle — small packet of drug powder; heroin
Bipping — snorting heroin and cocaine, either seperately or together
Black — opium
Black eagle — heroin
Black hash — opium mixed with hashish
Black pearl— heroin
Black pill — opium pill
Black Russian — opium mixed with hashish
Black stuff — heroin; opium
Black tar — heroin
Blanco (Spanish) — heroin; cocaine
Blank — container of unknown, nonnarcotic powder sold as heroin
Blows — heroin
Blue bag — heroin
Bomb — crack; heroin; large marijuana cigarette; high-potency heroin
Bombido — heroin; injectable amphetamine; depressants
Bombs away — heroin
Bonita (Spanish) — heroin
Boy — cocaine; heroin
Bozo — heroin
Brain damage — heroin
Brea (Spanish) — heroin
Brick gum — heroin
Broja — heroin
Brown — heroin
Brown crystal — heroin
Brown rhine — heroin
Brown sugar — heroin
Brown tape — heroin
Bull dog — heroin
Bundle — heroin
Burned — purchase fake drugs; getting ripped off during a drug deal
Butu — heroin

[ C ]

Caballo (Spanish) — heroin
Caca — heroin
Calbo (Spanish) — heroin
Canade — heroin/marijuana combination
Candy — OxyContin
Capital H — heroin
Caps — heroin; psilocybin/psilocin; crack; gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB)
Carga (Spanish) — heroin
Carne (Spanish) — heroin
Chandoo/chandu — opium
Chapopote (Spanish) — heroin
Charley — heroin
Chasing the dragon — smoking heroin; crack mixed with heroin; chasing the initial high
Chasing the tiger — to smoke heroin
Chiba — heroin
Chicle (Spanish) — heroin
Chieva — heroin
China girl — fentanyl
China town — fentanyl
China white — fentanyl; heroin; synthetic heroin
Chinese molasses — opium
Chinese red — heroin
Chinese tobacco — opium
Chip — heroin
Chipper — an occasional drug user (applies to all drug use, including cigarette smoking)
Chipping — using drugs occasionally (applies to all drug use, including cigarette smoking)
Chiva/chieva (Spanish) — heroin
Choco-fan — heroin
Chocolate — marijuana; opium; amphetamine
Chocolate-chip cookies — MDMA combined with heroin or methadone
Climax — heroin; crack; isobutyl nitrate; inhalants
Cocofan (Spanish) — brown tar heroin
Cold turkey — quitting drugs abruptly and without tapering first
Cook — mix heroin with water; heating heroin in preparation for injection
Cook down — process in which users liquefy or "melt" heroin in order to inhale it
Cop — to obtain/purchase drugs
Cotics — heroin
Coties — codeine
Cotton brothers — cocaine, heroin, and morphine
Cotton fever — critically high temperature associated with accidentally injecting cotton fibers into the bloodstream
Courage pills — heroin; depressants
Crackers — Talwin (Pentazocine) and Ritalin injected for effects similar to the effects produced by heroin mixed with cocaine
Crank — crack cocaine; heroin; amphetamine; methamphetamine; methcathinone
Crap — low quality heroin
Crash — the dysphoric effects that arise after the primary effects of a drug wears off
Crop — low-quality heroin
Crown crap — heroin
Cruz (Spanish) — opium from Veracruz, Mexico
Cura (Spanish) — heroin
Cut — an adulterant mixed in with powdered drugs to increase quantity and profit, which also lowers potency
Cut-deck — heroin cut with powdered milk

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