Here are few common street names of drugs. If you notice any of these being mentioned, it is an indicator that your loved one is at least being exposed to drug use or is involved with someone who is. To start the recovery process, call to speak to one of the caring staff at Addiction Angels of America.
- Marijuana: Pot, weed, reefer, dope, ganja, grass, herb, bud, green, trees, skunk, smoke and sinsemilla. In addition, synthetic Marijuana has come on the scene sold under the names of K2 and Spice
- Heroin: Brown sugar, smack, horse, dope, H or Big H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, girl or China white
- Cocaine: Candy, snow, rock, flake, blow and toot
- Methamphetamine: Meth, ice, crank, speed, jibb, tina, glass, fire, chalk and crystal or crystal meth
- Inhalants: Laughing gas, poppers, snappers or whippets.
Prescription Drug Street Names:
- Hydrocodone: Vicodin street names include Vikes, Vic and Watson 387. Lortab names include Tab, hydro. Lortab goes by names of Vikes or Viko
- OxyContin : hillbilly heroin, poor man’s heroin, pills, kicker, cotton, Ohs, Ox, rushbo, Os, blue, killers 40, 40-bar, beans, 80 and Orange County
- Oxycodone: blue, both Oxycodone and OxyContin go by OCs
- Percocet: Percs, Paulas, Roxicotten, Roxi’s, Blue dynamite (the 15-30 Percocet with no Tylenol), Gets and 512s (refers to the generic brand that prints “512” on the round white 5 mg Percocet pill). Percocet also contains Oxycodone so some of the street names are used interchangeably
- Fentanyl: Apache, China Girl, TNT, China White, murder 8, Tango and Cash, dance fever, jackpot, goodfella, and Chinatown
