D

• Dabble: to use drugs occasionally

• Deuce: $2 worth of drugs; heroin

• Dews: $10 worth of drugs

• Diesel: heroin

• Dime: $10 worth of drugs

• Dime’s worth: amount of heroin causing death

• Dinosaurs: populations of heroin users in their forties or fifties

• Dirt: heroin

• Disease: drug of choice

• Dog food: heroin

• Doogie: heroin

• Dollar: $100 worth of drugs

• Dooley: heroin

• Dope: marijuana; heroin; any other drug

• Dragon rock: mixture of heroin and crack

• Dreck: heroin

• Dropper: to inject a drug

• Dub: $20 worth of drugs

• Duji: heroin

• Dust: marijuana mixed with various chemicals; cocaine; heroin; PCP

• Dusting: adding PCP, heroin, or another drug to marijuana

• Dynamite: Cocaine mixed with heroin

• Dyno: heroin

• Dyno-pure: heroin

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E

• Easy score: obtaining drugs easily

• Eating: taking a drug orally

• Eighth: 1/8 ounce of heroin

• Elephant: marijuana; PCP; heroin

• Emergency gun: instrument other than a syringe used to inject

• Estuffa: heroin

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F

• Factory: place where drugs are packaged, diluted or manufactured

• Fall: to be arrested

• Fairy dust: heroin

• Fifteen cents: $15 worth of drugs

• Five C note: $500 bill

• Five cent bag: $5 worth of drugs

• Five dollar bag: $50 worth of drugs

• Fix: to inject a drug; heroin

• Flag: appearance of blood in the vein

• Flea powder: low purity heroin

• Foolish powder: heroin; cocaine

• Fuete: hypodermic needle

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G

• Galloping horse: heroin

• Gamot: heroin

• Garbage: inferior quality heroin

• Gato: heroin (spanish)

• Gear: drugs

• Geeze: to inject a narcotic

• Geezer: to inject a drug

• Get a gift: obtain drugs

• 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 and use heroin for a fee

• Get through: obtain drugs

• Gimmicks: drug injection equipment

• Giro houses: non-bank financial institutions frequently used by drug traffickers to launder drug proceeds

• Go into a sewer: to inject a drug

• Golden girl: heroin

• Good and plenty: heroin

• Good H: heroin

• Good lick: good drugs

• Got it going on: fast sale of drugs

• Graduate: completely stop using drugs or progress to stronger drugs

• Gravy: to inject a drug; heroin

• Grease: money

• Green goods: paper currency

• Gun: to inject a drug; needle

• Gutter: vein into which a drug is injected

• Gutter junkie: addict who relies on others to obtain drugs

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H

• H: heroin

• H & C: heroin and cocaine

• H Caps: heroin

• Hache: heroin

• Hairy: heroin

• Half G: $500

• Half load: 15 bags (decks) of heroin

• Half piece: ½ ounce of heroin or cocaine

• Half-a-C: $50 bill

• Hand-to-hand: direct delivery and payment

• Hard candy: heroin

• Harry: heroin

• Hazel: heroin

• Heeled: having plenty of money

• Helen: heroin

• Hell dust: heroin

• Henry: heroin

• Hero: heroin

• Hero of the underworld: heroin

• Herone: heroine

• Hessle: heroine

• High: under the influence of drugs

• Him: heroin

• Hit the main line: to inject a drug

• Hit the needle: to inject a drug

• Hit the pit: to inject a drug

• Hitting up: to inject a drug

• Holding: possessing drugs

• Honey: money

• Honeymoon: early stages of drug use before addiction or dependency develops

• Hong-yen: heroin in pill form

• Hook you up: to get someone drugs

• Hooked: addicted

• Hopped up: under the influence of drugs

• Horning: to inhale cocaine; heroin

• Horse: heroin

• Hot dope: heroin

• Hot heroin: heroin poisoned to give to a police informant

• Hot load: lethal injection of an opiate

• Hot shot: lethal injection of an opiate

• House fee: money paid to enter a crackhouse

• HRN: heroin

• Hulling: using others to get drugs

• Hustle: attempt to obtain drug customers

• Hype: heroin addict; an addict

• Hype stick: hypodermic needle

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I

• Ice cream habit: occasional use of drugs

• In: connected with drug suppliers

• Isda: heroin

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J

• Jab: to inject a drug

• Jack: steal someone’s drugs

• Jack-Up: to inject a drug

• Jag: keep a high going

• Jee gee: heroin

• Jive: heroin; marijuana; any drug

• Jive doo jee: heroin

• Jojee: heroin

• Jolly pop: causal user of heroin

• Jolt: strong reaction to drugs; to inject a drug

• Jones: heroin; a need for more drugs

• Jonesing: need for more drugs

• Joy: heroin

• Joy flakes: heroin

• Joy plant: opium

• Joy pop: to inject a drug

• Joy popping: occasional use of drugs

• Joy powder: heroin; cocaine

• Juggle: sell drugs to another addict to support a habit

• Juggler: teen-aged street dealer

• Junk: heroin; cocaine

• Junkie: addict

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K

• Kabayo: heroin

• Karachi: heroin

• Kick: getting off a drug habit; the effects of a drug, especially Amphetamines; inhalant

• Kiddie dope: prescription drugs

• Kit: equipment used to inject drugs

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M

• Mainline: to inject a drug

• Mainliner: person who injects into the vein

• Make up: need to find more drugs

• Matsakow: heroin

• Merchandise: drugs

• Mexican mud: heroin

• Midnight oil: opium

• Miss: to inject a drug

• Moonrock: crack and heroin

• Morotgara: heroin

• Mortal combat: high potency heroin

• Mouth worker: one who takes drugs orally

• Mud: heroin plus opium

• Mule: carrier of drugs

• Muzzle: heroin

• Laugh and scratch: to inject a drug

• Lay-out: equipment for taking drugs

• Leaping: under the influence of drug

• Lemonade: poor quality drugs

• Lemonade: heroin; poor quality drugs

• Lettuce: money

• Line: a single dose for snorting

• Lit up: under the influence of drugs

• Loaded: high

• Loused: covered by sores and abscesses from repeated use of unsterile needles

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N

• Nailed: arrested

• Nanoo: heroin

• New Jack Swing: heroin and morphine

• Nice and easy: heroin

• Nickel bag: $5 worth of drugs; heroin

• Nickel deck: heroin

• Nickel note: $5 bill

• Nix: stranger among the group

• Nod: effects of heroin

• Noise: heroin

• Number 4: heroin

• Number 8: heroin

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O

• OC: oxycontin

• Ocean Cities: oxycontin

• OD: overdose

• O.P.: opium

• Ogoy: heroin

• Oil: heroin; PCP

• Old Steve: heroin

• On a trip: under the influence of drugs

• On the bricks: walking the streets

• On the nod: under the influence of narcotics or depressant

• One on one house: where cocaine and heroin can be purchased

• One plus one sales: selling cocaine and heroin together

• Ope: opium

• Outfit: syringe

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P

• Pack: marijuana; heroin

• Panic: drugs not available

• Paper: a dosage unit of heroin

• Paper bag: container for drugs

• Parachute: smokable crack & heroin mixture

• P-dope: 20-30% pure heroin

• Peddlar: drug supplier

• Peg: heroin

• Pepsi habit: occasional use of drugs

• Perlas: street dealer (heroin)

• P-funk: crack mixed with PCP; heroin

• Plant: hiding place for drugs

• Point: a needle

• Poison: heroin; fentanyl

• Polvo: heroin (spanish); PCP

• Poppy: heroin

• Predator: heroin

• Primos: cigarette laced with cocaine and heroin

• Pulborn: heroin

• Push: sell drugs

• Push shorts: to cheat or sell short amounts

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Q

• Quarter bag: $25 worth of drugs

• Quarter piece: ¼ ounce

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R

• Racehorse charlie: cocaine; heroin

• Rambo: heroin

• Rap: criminally charged; to talk with someone

• Raw fusion: heroin

• Raw hide: heroin

• Razed: under the influence of drugs

• Ready rock: cocaine; crack; heroin

• Red: under the influence of drugs

• Red chicken: heroin

• Red eagle: heroin

• Reindeer dust: heroin

• Rhine: heroin

• Roller: to inject a drug

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S

• Sack: heroin

• Satch: papers, letters, cards, clothing, etc. saturated with drug solution (used to smuggle drugs into prisons or hospitals)

• Satch cotton: fabric used to filter a solution of narcotics before injection

• Scag: heroin

• Scat: heroin

• Schmeck: heroin

• Score: to obtain drugs

• Scott: heroin

• Scratch: money

• Second to none: heroin

• Set: place where drugs are sold

• Sewer: vein into which a drug is injected

• Sharps: hypodermic needles

• Shit: heroin; cannabis; any drug

• Shmeck: heroin

• Shoot up: to inject a drug

• Shooting gallery: place where drugs are used

• Shot down: under the influence of a drug

• Skag: heroin

• Skee: opium

• Skid: heroin

• Skied: under the influence of a drug

• Skin popping: injecting drugs under the skin

• Slam: to inject a drug

• Slanging: selling drugs

• Sleeper: heroin; barbiturate

• Smack: heroin

• Sniffer bags: $5 bag of heroin intended for inhalation

• Sniffing: to inhale cocaine; inhalants

• Snort: to inhale a drug

• Speedball: heroin mixed with cocaine; crack and smoked together

• Spike: to inject a drug; needle; hypodermic needle

• Split: half and half; or to leave

• Spoon: 1/16 ounce of heroin; paraphernalia used to prepare heroin for injection

• Sprung: person just starting to use drugs

• Stash: place to hide drugs; unused drugs

• Stash areas: drug storage and distribution areas

• Step on: dilute drugs

• Stoned: under the influence of a drug

• Strung out: heavily addicted to drugs

• Stuff: heroin

• Sweet dreams: heroin

• Sweet Jesus: heroin

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T

• T.N.T.: heroin; fentanyl

• Tar: heroin and crack smoked together; heroin; opium

• Taste: heroin; small sample of drugs

• Taxing: price paid to enter a crackhouse

• Tecata: heroin (Spanish)

• The beast: heroin

• The witch: heroin

• Thing: heroin; cocaine; main drug interest at the moment

• Thoroughbred: drug dealer who sells pure narcotics

• Thunder: heroin

• Tie: to inject a drug

• Tiger: heroin

• Toilet water: inhalants

• Tout: person who introduces buyers to sellers

• Track: to inject a drug

• Tracks: row of needle marks on a person

• Trap: hiding place for drugs

• Turf: place where drugs are sold

• Turned on: introduced to drugs; under the influence

• Twenty: $20 worth of drugs

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U

• Uncle: federal agents

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W

• Wake and Bake: marijuana; getting high first thing in the morning

• White boy: heroin

• White junk: heroin

• White lady: cocaine; heroin

• White nurse: heroin

• Wicked: a potent brand of heroin

• Wiggin: odd behavior resulting from the use of mind altering drugs

• Wings: heroin; cocaine

• Witch: heroin; cocaine

• Witch hazel: heroin

• Works: equipment used for injecting a drug

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Z

• Z: 1 ounce of heroin

• Zip: 1 ounce of any type of drug

• Zonked: extremely high on drugs

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