Heroin in its pure form is a white powder with a bitter taste. However, most
illicit heroin varies in color from white to dark brown. "Black tar" heroin
is sticky like roofing tar or hard like coal, and its color may vary from dark
brown to black. Users administer heroin by injecting, smoking, or snorting it.
Heroin is brought into the U.S. from foreign sources of opium. Production of
this drug occurs in South America, Mexico, Southeast Asia, and Southwest Asia.
Heroin has a long history. The first source was opium from poppies around 6000
BC; the Greeks recorded opium addiction in the third century BC. The Chinese
first inhaled it in the 17th century. In 16th-century Europe, Paracelsus invented
laudanum - an opium-based medicine that was used for painkilling and sedation
well into the 19th century, until morphine was developed. A more powerful variant,
diamorphine (heroin), appeared in Germany in 1874 and by the 1930s it had overtaken
opium as the cheaper narcotic.
The heroin effect is bigger than almost any other drug. It's a really powerful
feeling that has no comparison in normal life. When heroin is injected intravenously,
the "rush" is almost instantaneous, but even when it's smoked it only
takes a few seconds.
There are numerous health risks associated with heroin use. These
include but are not limited to:
A-bomb |
marijuana and heroin smoked in cigarette |
a la canona |
abrupt ("cold turkey") withdrawal from heroin |
baby |
minor heroin habit |
belly habit |
heroin addiction resulting in stomach symptoms |
black tar heroin |
potent heroin from Mexico |
blue velvet |
combination of elixir terpin hydrate with codeine
and tripelennamine (as weak heroin substitute) |
blue velvet |
combination of paregoric and PBZ (pyribenzamine or
tripelennamine) used as a weak heroin substitute |
brother |
heroin |
chasing the dragon |
inhaling vapors of heroin or cocaine heated on tin
foil |
chicken shit habit |
small heroin habit, usually not addicted |
chick |
heroin |
China white |
very pure form of heroin, alternately a fentanyl
analog used as a heroin substitute |
cotton shooter |
desperate addict who injects the residue from cotton
used to filter heroin
|
daytime |
high on drugs, especially heroin |
dip and dab |
experiment, especially with heroin |
do up |
inject a drug, especially heroin |
evening |
onset of heroin withdrawal (start of night time)
|
firing the ack ack gun |
technique for smoking heroin by dipping tip of a
tobacco cigarette in heroin (Asian slang) |
floating |
high on a drug, especially heroin |
fluff |
filtering heroin or cocaine through cloth (often a
stocking) to increase its apparent bulk |
goods |
any drug, especially heroin |
good sick |
nausea following heroin injection |
Harry Jones |
heroin |
heavy stuff |
heroin or cocaine |
Judas |
heroin (a friend that betrays you) |
King Kong |
major heroin habit |
man |
heroin; drug dealer; the police |
Mister Brownstone |
hashish, brown heroin |
monkey on one's back |
addiction to a drug, especially heroin or opium
|
night time |
heroin withdrawal |
Nixon |
low potency heroin |
partying |
using a drug, especially heroin; getting drunk |
people, the |
high level heroin distributors |
pineapple |
heroin and Ritalin or amphetamine |
poison people |
heroin addicts |
poor man's speedball |
heroin and methamphetamine combo |
red chicken |
Chinese heroin |
schmack |
heroin |
schmeck |
heroin |
schmecker |
heroin user |
score |
price of a bundle of drugs, especially heroin |
used as a heroin substitute |
|
shit |
heroin |
sleepwalker |
heroin addict |
speedball |
injection of heroin and cocaine mixture |
speedball artist |
one who injects heroin and cocaine mixture |
super flu |
heroin withdrawal symptoms |
take off artists |
heroin addicts who rob other addicts to get drugs
|
taking care of business |
heroin addicts life and actions on the street |
tapping the bags |
when dealers remove small amounts of heroin from a
bag before selling it, thus short weighting the buyer
|
tecata |
heroin |
ten cent pistol |
heroin dose laced with poison |
T's and Blues |
Talwin (pentazocine) and PBZ (pyribenzamine) used as
a heroin substitute
|
T's and B's |
Talwin (pentazocine) and PBZ (pyribenzamine) used as
a heroin substitute
|
tease and bees |
Talwin (pentazocine) and PBZ (pyribenzamine) used as
a heroin substitute
|
tease and blues |
Talwin (pentazocine) and PBZ (pyribenzamine) used as
a heroin substitute
|
tease and pies |
Talwin (pentazocine) and PBZ (pyribenzamine) used as
a heroin substitute
|
teddies and bettys |
Talwin (pentazocine) and PBZ (pyribenzamine) used as
a heroin substitute
|
tops and bottoms |
Talwin (pentazocine) and PBZ (pyribenzamine) used as
a heroin substitute
|
tricycles and bicycles |
Talwin (pentazocine) and PBZ (pyribenzamine) used as
a heroin substitute
|
wired |
intoxicated on amphetamines; addicted to heroin
|
AIP |
heroin from Afghanistan, Iran, & Pakistan |
Antifreeze |
heroin |
Aries |
heroin |
Atom bomb |
marijuana and heroin |
Aunt Hazel |
heroin |
Back to back |
smoking crack after injecting heroin or heroin used
after smoking crack
|
Bad bundle |
inferior quality heroin |
Bad seed |
peyote; heroin; marijuana |
Balloon |
heroin supplier |
Ballot |
heroin |
Belushi |
cocaine and heroin |
Big bag |
heroin |
Big H |
heroin |
Big Harry |
heroin |
Bindle |
small packet of drug powder; heroin |
Birdie powder |
heroin; cocaine |
Black pearl |
heroin |
Black stuff |
heroin |
Black tar |
heroin |
Blanco |
heroin |
Bomb |
crack; heroin; large marijuana cigarette; |
high potency heroin |
|
Bombido |
injectable amphetamine; heroin; depressant |
Bombita |
amphetamine; heroin; depressant |
Bombs away |
heroin |
Bonita |
heroin |
Boy |
heroin |
Bozo |
heroin |
Brick gum |
heroin |
Brown |
heroin; marijuana |
Brown crystal |
heroin |
Brown rhine |
heroin |
Brown sugar |
heroin |
Bundle |
heroin |
Butu |
heroin |
Caballo |
heroin |
Caca |
heroin |
Capital H |
heroin |
Caps |
heroin; psilocybin/psilocin |
Carga |
heroin |
Carne |
heroin |
Channel swimmer |
one who injects heroin |
Charley |
heroin |
Chasing the dragon |
crack and heroin |
Chasing the tiger |
to smoke heroin |
Chicle |
heroin |
Chieva |
heroin |
China cat |
high potency heroin |
Chinese red |
heroin |
Chip |
heroin |
Chucks |
hunger following withdrawal from heroin |
Cigarette paper |
packet of heroin |
Climax |
crack; isobutyl nitrite; heroin |
Cook |
mix heroin with water; heating heroin to prepare it
for injection |
Cook down |
process in which users liquify heroin in order to
inhale it |
Cotics |
heroin |
Cotton brothers |
cocaine, heroin and morphine |
Courage pills |
heroin; depressant |
Crap/crop |
low quality heroin |
Crown crap |
heroin |
Cura |
heroin |
Cut-deck |
heroin mixed with powdered milk |
Dead on arrival |
heroin |
Deck |
1 to 15 grams of heroin, also known as a bag; |
Deuce |
$2 worth of drugs; heroin |
Dime's worth |
amount of heroin to cause death |
Dirt |
heroin |
Dog food |
heroin |
Dogie |
heroin |
Doogie/doojee/dugie |
heroin |
Dooley |
heroin |
Dope |
heroin; marijuana; any other drug |
Dreck |
heroin |
Duji |
heroin |
Dust |
heroin; cocaine; PCP; marijuana mixed with various
chemicals |
Dusting |
adding PCP, heroin, or another drug to marijuana
|
Dynamite |
heroin and cocaine |
Dyno |
heroin |
Dyno-pure |
heroin |
Eightball |
crack and heroin |
Eighth |
heroin |
El diablito |
marijuana, cocaine, heroin and PCP |
El diablo |
marijuana, cocaine and heroin |
Estuffa |
heroin |
Ferry dust |
heroin |
Flamethrowers |
cigarette laced with cocaine and heroin |
Flea powder |
low purity heroin |
Foo foo stuff |
heroin; cocaine |
Foolish powder |
heroin; cocaine |
Frisco special |
cocaine, heroin and LSD |
Frisco speedball |
cocaine, heroin and LSD |
Galloping horse |
heroin |
Gamot |
heroin |
Gato |
heroin |
George smack |
heroin |
Girl |
cocaine; crack; heroin |
Give wings |
inject someone or teach someone to inject heroin
|
Glacines |
heroin |
Golden girl |
heroin |
Golpe |
heroin |
Goma |
opium; black tar heroin |
Good and plenty |
heroin |
Good H |
heroin |
Goofball |
cocaine and heroin; depressant |
Gravy |
to inject a drug; heroin |
H |
heroin |
H & C |
heroin and cocaine |
H Caps |
heroin |
Hache |
heroin |
Hairy |
heroin |
Half load |
15 bags (decks) of heroin |
Half piece |
1/2 ounce of heroin or cocaine |
Hard candy |
heroin |
Hard stuff |
opium; heroin |
Harry |
heroin |
Hazel |
heroin |
Heaven dust |
heroin; cocaine |
Helen |
heroin |
Hell dust |
heroin |
Henry |
heroin |
Hero |
heroin |
Hero of the underworld |
heroin |
Heroina |
heroin |
Herone |
heroin |
Hessle |
heroin |
Him |
heroin |
Hombre |
heroin |
Hong-yen |
heroin in pill form |
Horning |
heroin; to inhale cocaine |
Horse |
heroin |
Hot dope |
heroin |
Hot heroin |
poisoned to give to a police informant |
HRN |
heroin |
Hype |
heroin addict; an addict |
Isda |
heroin |
Jee gee |
heroin |
Jive |
heroin; marijuana; drugs |
Jive doo jee |
heroin |
Jojee |
heroin |
Jolly pop |
casual user of heroin |
Jones |
heroin |
Joy flakes |
heroin |
Joy powder |
heroin; cocaine |
Junk |
cocaine; heroin |
Kabayo |
heroin |
Karachi |
heroin |
LBJ |
LSD; PCP; heroin |
Lemonade |
heroin; poor quality drugs |
Little bomb |
amphetamine; heroin; depressant |
Load |
25 bags of heroin |
Matsakow |
heroin |
Mayo |
cocaine; heroin |
Mexican brown |
heroin; marijuana |
Mexican horse |
heroin |
Mexican mud |
heroin |
Mojo |
cocaine; heroin |
Moonrock |
crack and heroin |
Morotgara |
heroin |
Mortal combat |
high potency heroin |
Mud |
opium; heroin |
Murder one |
heroin and cocaine |
Muzzle |
heroin |
Nanoo |
heroin |
New Jack Swing |
heroin and morphine |
Nice and easy |
heroin |
Nickel bag |
$5 worth of drugs; heroin |
Nickel deck |
heroin |
Nod |
effects of heroin |
Noise |
heroin |
Nose |
heroin |
Nose drops |
liquified heroin |
Number 3 |
cocaine, heroin |
Number 4 |
heroin |
Number 8 |
heroin |
Ogoy |
heroin |
Oil |
heroin, PCP |
Old Steve |
heroin |
P-dope |
20-30% pure heroin |
P-funk |
heroin; crack and PCP |
Pack |
heroin; marijuana |
Pangonadalot |
heroin |
Paper boy |
heroin peddler |
Parachute |
crack and PCP smoked; heroin |
Peg |
heroin |
Perfect High |
heroin |
Poison |
heroin; fentanyl |
Polvo |
heroin; PCP |
Poppy |
heroin |
Powder |
heroin; amphetamine |
Primos |
cigarettes laced with cocaine and heroin |
Pulborn |
heroin |
Pure |
heroin |
Quill |
methamphetamine; heroin; cocaine |
Racehorse charlie |
cocaine; heroin |
Ragweed |
inferior quality marijuana; heroin |
Rambo |
heroin |
Rane |
cocaine; heroin |
Ready rock |
cocaine; crack; heroin |
Red chicken |
heroin |
Red eagle |
heroin |
Reindeer dust |
heroin |
Rhine |
heroin |
Sack |
heroin |
Salt |
heroin |
Sandwich |
two layers of cocaine with a layer of heroin |
Scag |
heroin |
Scat |
heroin |
Scate |
heroin |
Scott |
heroin |
Shmeck/schmeek |
heroin |
Skid |
heroin |
Sleeper |
heroin; depressant |
Slime |
heroin |
Smack |
heroin |
Smoke |
heroin and crack; crack; marijuana |
Smoking gun |
heroin and cocaine |
Snow |
cocaine; heroin; amphetamine |
Snowball |
cocaine and heroin |
Speedball |
heroin and cocaine; amphetamine |
Spider blue |
heroin |
Spoon |
1/16 ounce of heroin;paraphernalia used to prepare
heroin for injection
|
Stuff |
heroin |
Sugar |
cocaine; LSD; heroin |
Sweet Jesus |
heroin |
Sweet stuff |
heroin; cocaine |
T.N.T. |
heroin; fentanyl |
Tar |
opium; heroin |
Taste |
heroin; small sample of drugs |
Tecate |
heroin |
Tecatos |
Hispanic heroin addicts |
The beast |
heroin |
The witch |
heroin |
Thing |
heroin; cocaine; main drug interest at the moment
|
Tootsie roll |
heroin |
Whack |
PCP and heroin |
White boy |
heroin |
White girl |
cocaine; heroin |
White junk |
heroin |
White lady |
cocaine; heroin |
White nurse |
heroin |
White stuff |
heroin |
Whiz bang |
cocaine and heroin |
Wings |
heroin; cocaine |
Witch |
heroin; cocaine |
Witch hazel |
heroin |
Z |
1 ounce of heroin |
red rum |
potent form of heroin (murder spelled backward)
|
black tootsie roll |
black tar heroin |
white horse |
Heroin |
cheva |
heroin |
chiva |
heroin |