A GUIDE TO SOME DRUGS WHICH ARE SUBJECT TO ABUSE
The first step in preventing drug problems is to know what they are. This guide lists illicit ( prohibited ) drugs and legitimate ( permissive ) drugs and indicates how drug abusers may be spotted . Read carefully and keep on file.
Illicit ( Prohibited ) drugs ( Manufacture and distribution prohibited except for approved research purposes.)
Hallucinogens:
Slang names: LSD, Acid
Danger: very small quantities of LSD may cause hallucinations lasting for days or repetitive psychotoxic episodes, which may recur months after injection. Permanence of mental derangement is still a moot question. Damage to chromosomes, and hence potentially to offspring, has been demonstrated.
Heroin:
Slang names: Snow, Stuff, H, and Junk
Danger: like morphine; dependence usually develops more rapidly. Dependence liability is high.
Marijuana (Cannabis):
Slang names: Joints, Sticks, Reefers, Weed, Grass, Pot, Mugs, Muggles, Indian hay, Locoweed, Mu, Giggle-smoke, Griffo, Mohasky, Mary jane
Danger: Because of the vivid visions and exhilaration which result from use of marijuana, abusers may lose all restraint and act in a manner dangerous to themselves and/ or others. Accident prone because of time and space sense disturbance. Dependence ( psychic but not physical ) leads to antisocial behavior and could be forerunner of use of other drugs.
Legitimate( prmissive ) drugs (essential to the practice of medicine, legitimate manufacture and distribution are confined to ethical drug channels.
Amphetamine:
Slang names: Bennies, co-pilots, footballs, hearts, pep pills
Danger: Amphetamines can cause high blood pressure, abnormal heart rhythms, and even heart attacks. Teenagers often take them to increase their “nerve”. As a result, they may behave dangerously. Excess or prolonged usage can cause hallucinations, loss of weight, wakefulness, jumpiness, and dangerous aggressiveness. Tolerance to large doses is acquired by abusers; psychic dependence develops but physical dependence does not; and there is no characteristic withdrawal syndrome.
Barbiturates
Slang names: Red birds, Yellow jackets, Blue heavens, Goof balls
Danger: Sedation, coma, and death from respiratory failure. Inattentiveness may cause unintentional repetitious administration to a toxic level. Many deaths each year from unintentional overdose. Potentiation with alcohol particularly hazardous. The drug is addictive, causing , causing physical as well as psychic dependency, and withdrawal phenomena are characteristically different from withdrawal of opiates.
Cocaine:
Slang names: the leaf, snow, speedballs ( when mixed with heroin)
Danger: Convulsions and death may occur from overdose. Paranoic activity. Very strong psychic but no physical dependence and no tolerance.
Codeine:
Slang Name: School boy
Danger: Occasionally taken (liquid preparations) for kicks, but large amount required. Contribution of the alcohol content to the effect may be significant. Degree and risk of abuse very minor. Occasionally resorted to by opiate-dependent persons to tide them over, with inadequate result .
Methamphetamine:
Slang names: speed, crystal or shabu
Danger: Excessive psychotoxic effects, sometimes with fatal outcome.
Morphine:
Slang names: M, dreamer
Danger: man is very sensitive to the respiratory depressant effect until tolerance develops. Psychic and physical dependence and tolerance develops readily, with a characteristic withdrawal syndrome.
General Terms:
Bang- injection of drugs MARIIJUANA
Boost- steal to support drug habit Blow a stick – smoke
a marijuana cigar
Burned- to receive phony, bad or diluted drugs Gage - marijuana
Cap- a container of drugs, usually a capsule grass- marijuana
Chipping- taking small amounts of drugs on hashish- the resin of the
an irregular basis marijuana plant
Coasting – to be under influence of drugs Hemp- marijuana
Cold turkey- drug withdrawal without medication Joint- marijuana cigar
Connection – a drug supplier manicure- high-grade
Cop – to purchase drugs mary jane- marijuana
Deck- a small packet of drugs reefer- marijuana cigar
Drop – to swallow a drug roach- butt of marijuana
Hard stuff – heroin, morphine, cocaine rope- marijuana
High- under influence of drugs stick- marijuana cigar
Holding- having drugs in one’s possession tea, weed
Hooked- addicted
Jones- habit NARCOTICS:
Joy-pop – to inject small amounts of drugs Backtrack – to withdraw blood
Irregularly into a syringe to make sure
Mainline – go inject drugs directly into a vein it is in vein
Maintaining a high- keeping at a certain level Bindle- packet of narcotics
of drug effect BIZ- equipment for injecting
Mojo- narcotics Blank – low grade narcotics
Paper- a prescription for drugs Flash-initial feeling after inj. Gun- hypodermic needle
Panic- shortage of drugs on the market junkie- narcotics addict
Pop – to inject drugs Lemonade- poor heroin
Score- to buy drugs
Square- a non addict
Tracks – scars along veins after many injections
Wasted- under influence of drugs
Hot shot- overdose of heroin, or poison
Fix- an injection of narcotics
Dolly- mthadone (dolophine), a synthetic narcotics
Miss Emma-morphine
Nickel bag- a $5 purchase of narcotics
Quill – a folded matchbook cover from which narcotics are sniffed through the nose
Satch cotton- cotton used to strain narcotics before injection
Scag- heroin
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