Street Names
Desoxyn: chalk, crank, crystal, fire, glass, go fast, ice, meth, speed
How Administered**
Injected, swallowed, smoked, snorted
Intoxication Effects/Potential Health Consequences
For methamphetamine-aggression, violence, psychotic behavior/memory loss, cardiac and neurological damage; impaired memory and learning tolerance, addiction.
Street Names
China Girl, Apache, Goodfella, China White, TNT, Friend, Dance Fever
How Administered**
Injected, swallowed, applied to skin, snorted
Intoxication Effects/Potential Health Consequences
For fentanyl - drowsiness, nausea, confusion, constipation, sedation, problems breathing, unconsciousness
Street Names
Cocaine hydrochloride: blow, bump, C, candy, Charlie, coke, crack, flake, rock, snow, toot
How Administered**
Injected, smoked, snorted
Intoxication Effects/Potential Health Consequences
For cocaine-increased temperature/chest pain, respiratory failure, nausea, abdominal pain, strokes, seizures, headaches, malnutrition, panic attacks.
Street Names
OxyContin: Oxy, O.C, killer
How Administered**
Swallowed, snorted, injected
Street Names
Barbs, reds, red birds, phennies, tooies, yellows, yellow jackets
How Administered**
Injected, swallowed
Intoxication Effects/Potential Health Consequences
anxiety; felling well-being; lowered inhibitions; slowed pulse and breathing; lowered blood pressure; poor concentration/fatigue; confusion; impaired coordination, memory, judgment; addiction; respiratory depression and arrest; death. Also, for barbiturates-sedation, drowsiness/depression, unusual excitement, fever, irritability, poor judgment, slurred speech, dizziness, life-threatening withdrawal
Street Names
Diacety/morphone: brown sugar, dope, H, horse, junk, skag, skunk, smack, white horse
How Administered**
Injected, smoked, snorted
Street Names
Barbs, reds, red birds, phennies, tooies, yellows, yellow jackets
How Administered**
Injected, swallowed
Street Names
Valium, Xanax: candy, downers, sleeping pills
How Administered**
Injected, swallowed
Intoxication Effects/Potential Health Consequences
sedation, drowsiness/dizziness
Intoxication Effects/Potential Health Consequences
anxiety; felling well-being; lowered inhibitions; slowed pulse and breathing; lowered blood pressure; poor concentration/fatigue; confusion; impaired coordination, memory, judgment; addiction; respiratory depression and arrest; death. Also, for barbiturates-sedation, drowsiness/depression, unusual excitement, fever, irritability, poor judgment, slurred speech, dizziness, life-threatening withdrawal
Street Names
Quaalude: ludes mandrex, quad, quay
How Administered**
Injected, swallowed
Intoxication Effects/Potential Health Consequences
euphoria/depression, poor reflexes, slurred speech, coma
Street Names
Roxanol, Duramorph: M, Miss Emma, monkey, white stuff
How Administered**
Injected, swallowed, smoked
Street Names
Laudanaum, paregoric: big O, black stuff, block, gum, hop
How Administered**
Swallowed, smoked
Street Names
Blunt, dope, ganja, grass, herb, joints, Mary Jane, pot, reefer, weed
How Administered**
Swallowed, smoked
Intoxication Effects/Potential Health Consequences
Euphoria, slowed thinking and reaction time, confusion, impaired balance and coordination/cough, frequent respiratory infections; impaired memory and learning; increased heart rate, anxiety, panic attacks; tolerance, addiction
Street Names
Vicodin: vike, Watson-387
How Administered**
Swallowed
Intoxication Effects/Potential Health Consequences
Pain relief, euphoria, drowsiness/nausea, constipation, confusion sedation, respiratory depression and arrest, tolerance, addiction, unconsciousness, coma, staggering pain, death
Street Names
Adam, clarity, ecstasy, Eve, lover’s speed, peace, STP, X, XTC
How Administered**
Swallowed
Intoxication Effects/Potential Health Consequences
For MDMA-mild hallucinogenic effects, increased tactile sensitivity, empathic feelings/impaired memory and learning, hyperthermia, cardiac toxicity, renal failure, liver toxicity.
Street Names
Ritalin: JIF, MPH, R-ball, Skippy, the smart drug, vitamin R
How Administered**
Injected, swallowed, snorted
Street Names
Found in some cough and
cold medications: Robotripping, Robo, Triple C
How Administered**
Swallowed
Intoxication Effects/Potential Health Consequences
Dissociative effects, distorted visual perceptions to complete dissociative effects/for effects at higher doses see “dissociate anesthetics’.
*Often used to make methamphetamine