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Amphetamines

Any of a group of drugs that stimulate the central nervous system. Amphetamines are used in the treatment of certain neurological conditions, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. These drugs are considered highly addictive.

Amphetamines are also refered to as:

Bennies
Black Beauties
Co pilot
Crosses
Crystal
Dope
Dragon's Blood
Fast
Go
Go Fast
Go-ee
Goey
Go-ey
Hearts
Ice

LA Turnaround
Liquid Speed
Long Distance Driving
Lou Reed
MDA
Methamphetamine Hydroxide
Ox Blood
Oxblood
PMA
Purple Hearts
Quick
Rev
Sip
Speed
Speedas
Truck Drivers
Uppers
Vitamin A
Whiz
Whizz
Ya Ba
Zip
Zoom

Mixture of multiple drugs

A Bomb – Heroin and Cannabis
Coca puffs – Marijuana and Cocaine
Cocktail – Marijuana and Hashish
Crank – Amphetamine and Heroin
Fireball – Cocaine and Heroin
Flight right – Cocaine and Marijuana
Lazer – Marijuana and PCP
Lovely – Cocaine and PCP

OJ – Opium and Cannabis
Primo – Cocaine and Marijuana
Snowcone – Amphetamines or Heroin and Cannabis
Space Base – Cocaine and PCP
Speedball – Cocaine and Heroin
Supergrass – PCP and Cannabis
Superweed – PCP and Cannabis

Barbiturates

A class of chemically related Central Nervous System (CNS) depressant, sedative/hypnotic drugs, derivative of barbituric acid.

Abbots
Amo-Secobarbital
Amytal
Angels
Barbituric Acid
Barbs
Birds
Block Busters
Blockers
Blues
Chewies
Double Trouble
Downers
F 40s
Flags
Goofballs
Green Dragons
Greenies
Hypnotic Drugs
Hypnotics
King Kong Pills
Marshmallow
Marshmallow Reds
Mexican Reds
Neb
Nembutal

Nimby
Peanuts
Phennies
Phenobarbital
Pink Ladies
Pinks
Quinalbarbitone Sodium
Rainbows
Red Birds
Reds
Seconal
Sedative Drugs
Sedative-Hypnotic
Sedatives
Sleepers
Softball
Stumblers
Tooies
Tuinal
Tuis
Yellow Jackets
Yellows

Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD)

A powerful hallucinogenic drug manufactured from lysergic acid. Hallucinogenic drugs, also known as "psychedelics", are drugs that change the way a person perceives the world. Hallucinogens affect all the senses, altering a person's thinking, sense of time and emotions.

LSD is also refered to as:

Acid
Acid Cap
Blotter
Blue Star
Boomers
Canadian Black
Cartoon Characters
Clearlight
Cubes
Dots
Garfield
LSD
Microdot
Mr Bill
Orange Barrels

Paper Mushrooms
Phantoms
Pink Floyds
Purple Pyramids
Pyramid
Red Dragons
Robots
Smiley
Smiley Faces
Strawberries
Strawberry
Tables and Chairs
Tabs
Tickets
Trip
Trippers
Trips
Wedges
Window Panes
Yellow Sunshines

Ecstasy

Ecstasy is the street name for a range of drugs including, or similar in chemical structure to MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine). Some of these include MDA, MDEA and PMA. Ecstasy belongs to the family of synthetic drugs known as phenethylamines. Ecstasy tablets may contain varying mixtures of MDMA and related drugs (including amphetamine) as well other substances.

Ecstasy is also refered to as:

Adam
Big Brown
Burgers
Disco
Disco Biscuits
Doves
E
Ease
Eccies
Eccy
Echo
Eckies
Ecstasy
Ecstasy-MDMA

Eggs
Es
Fantasia
Grey Biscuits
Hamburgers
Hug Drug
Love
Love Drug
MDMA
Methylenedioxymethamphetamine
New Yorkers
Ones
Orbit
Pink Doves
Pink Studs
Psychedelic Speed
Special K - for Ecstasy containing Ketamine
White Dove
Whizz Bombs
X
XTC
Yellow Callies

Inhalants

Inhalants are a range of products that produce vapours which, when inhaled, may cause a person to feel intoxicated or "high". Inhalants are "depressants", which means that they slow down the activity of the brain and central nervous system. As a result, the messages going between the brain and the body are slowed down.

Inhalants are also refered to as:

Aerosol
Alkyl Nitrites
Amyl Nitrate
Anaesthetics
Anesthetics
Aroma of Man
Bananas
Buds
Butane
Cleaning Products
Deodorant
Fly Spray
Gas Bullet
Gasoline
Glue
Hard On
Hard Ware
Heart On
Ketamine
Laughing Gas

Lighters
Liquid Gold
Locker Room
Locker Room Deodorant
Nail Polish Remover
Nitrates
Nitrites
Nitrous Oxide
Paint
Pam
PCP
Petrol
Poppers
Propane
Quick Silver
Ram
Reds
Rush
Snappers
Solvents
Special K (Ketamine)
Supergold
Sweat Sock
Thinners
Toilet Water
Vitamin K (Ketamine)
Volatile Solvents
Whippets

Alcohol

In it's raw form Alcohol is very strong and unique smelling, colorless, volatile liquid formed by the the process of fermentation. It is the key ingrediant in alcoholic beverages inclding whiskey, vodka, beer and wine

Alcohol is commonly refered to as:

Amber Fluid
Booze
Brew
Grog
Juice
Liquid Gold
Piss
Plonk
Sauce
Swill

Tobacco

Comes from the leaves of the tobacco plant, which contain nicotine. Nicotine is a stimulant drug. Stimulant drugs act on the central nervous system to speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.

Tobacco is commonly refered to as:

Acetone
Ammonia
Bidis
Carbon Monoxide
Chew
Cigarettes
Cigars
Fags
Gaspers
Hydrogen Cyanide
Nicotine
Papers
Smokes
Smoking
Tar
Weed

Phencyclidine (PCP)

Psychoactive drug producing depressant, stimulant analgesic and hallucinogenic effects. Hallucinogenic drugs, also known as "psychedelics", are drugs that change the way a person perceives the world. Hallucinogens affect all the senses, altering a person's thinking, sense of time and emotions.

Phenylcyclidine is also refered to as:

Amoeba
Angel Dust
Boat
Crystal Joints
Dips
Doa
Elephant Tranquilliser
Embalming Fluid
Hog

Jet Fuel
Killer Weed
Krystal Joints
Love Boat
Magic Dust
Mint weed
Monkey Bust
Paz
PCP
Peace Pill
Pinners
Sernyl
Sherms
Superkools
Wac
Water
Zombie

Hallucinogens

Hallucinogens are also refered to as:

Angel's Trumpet
Barrels
Blue Meanies
Bufotenine
Business Man's Lunch (DMT)
Buttons (Mescaline)
Cactus (Mescaline)
Cat Valiums (Ketamine)
Datura
Dimethyltryptamine
DMT
Hallucinogenic Drugs
K (Ketamine)
Ketamine (anaesthetic)

Licorice
LSD
Magic Mushrooms (Psilocybin)
MDA
Mesc (Mescaline)
Mescal Buttons
Mescaline
PCP
Peyote (Mescaline)
Psilocybin
Purple Passion (Psilocybin)
Shrooms (Psilocybin)
Special K (Ketamine)
STP
Vitamin K (Ketamine)

Analgesics

A drug that reduce or eliminate pain,

A drug that reduce or eliminate pain, these drugs are commonly Pharmaceuticals.

Analgesics are also refered to as:

Anti-inflammatories
Aspirin
Codeine
Disprin
Nurofen
Painkillers
Panadol
Paracetamol

Benzodiazepines

Minor tranquillisers. Depressant – any sedative-hypnotic drug primarily for use in the treatment of anxiety. A general term that covers prescription drugs in the benzodiazepine class.

Benzodiazepines are commonly refered to as:

Anxiolytics
Ativan
Benzos
Candy
Chlordiazepoxide
Downers
Halcion
Hypnotic Drugs
Hypnotics
Librium
Minor Tranquillisers

Minor Tranx
Sedative Drugs
Sedative-Hypnotics
Sedatives
Sleeping Pills
Tranks
Tranquillising Drugs
Tranx
Valium
Vs
Xanax

Opiates

Any non-synthetic opioid – a substance derived from the opium poppy, for example morphine,
heroin, and codeine.

Opiates are also refered to as:

Apache (Fentanyl)
Beige Powder
Big H
Big O (Opium)
Black Stuff (Opium)
Black Tar
Block (Opium)
Brown Rocks
Captain Cody (Codeine)
China Brown
China Girl (Fentanyl)
China White (Fentanyl)
Codeine
Cody (Codeine)
Continentals
Dance Fever (Fentanyl)
Dogie
Doors and Fours (Codeine)
Dope
Dr Dream
Dreamer
Dust
Fentanyl
Friend (Fentanyl)
Goodfella (Fentanyl)
Gum (Opium)
Hammer

Harry
Heroin
Hop (Opium)
Horse
Jackpot (Fentanyl)
Junk
Loads (Codeine)
M (Morphine)
Miss Emma (Morphine)
Monkey (Morphine)
Morf
Morph
Morphine
MS Contin
Murder 8 (Fentanyl)
O
Opioids
Opium
Pancakes and Syrup (Codeine)
Pink Rocks
Poison
Scag
Smack
Stuff
Tango and Cash (Fentanyl)
Tar
Tar Buggers
Tea
TNT (Fentanyl)
White Lady
White Rocks
White Stuff (Morphine)

Cocaine

A narcotic that is considered a hard drug, a highly addictive colourless or white crystalline alkaloid extracted from coca leaves.

Cocaine is also refered to as:

Basuco
Blow
Blow Candy
C
Candy
CC
Charlie
Coca Paste
Cocaine Hydrochloride
Coke
Cola
Colombian
Crack
Crank
Flake
Girl
Glass
Jack

Jimmy
Line
Lines
Nose Candy
Okey-Doke
Pasta
Pepsi
Pizza
Rail
Rock
Sleigh Ride
Snow
The Lady
The Real Thing
Toot
Up Town
Vitamin C
White Coat
White Dust
White Lady
Whizz

Heroin

A narcotic that is considered a hard drug, a highly addictive morphine derivative classified under Opiates

Heroin is also refered to as:

Beige
Beige Powder
Big Harry
Black Tar
Blatt
Blow Horse
Brown Rocks
Brown Sugar
Bugger
Captain Jack
Chase
China H
China White
Chinese H
Chinese Rock
Chitari
Dope
Dragon
Dragon Powder
Dust
Elephant
Fix
Gear
H
Hammer

Harry
Horse
Joy Powder
Junk
Mexican Brown
Number 4 White
Pink Rocks
Piss
Poison
Pure
Rock
Scag
Scat
School Boy
Shit
Skag
Skunk
Slow
Smack
Stuff
The Grouse
Thing
Vitamin H
Whack
White
White Dynamite
White Horse

Stimulants

An agent, especially a drug, that causes increased activity, especially of the nervous or cardiovascular systems. Caffeine is a commonly used stimulant.

Stimulants are commonly refered to as:

Black Beauty
Dexedrine
Dexies
Eye Openers
Glass
Lid Poppers
Pep Pills
Up town
Uppers
Wake Ups
Water

Naturally Occurring Hallucinogens

A natural drug or chemical that causes a person to have
hallucinations.

Naturally occurring hallucinogens are also refered to as:

Blue Meanies
Gold Tops
Goldies
K
Magic Mushrooms
Mushies
Psilocin
Psilocybin
Shrooms
Special K

Cannabis

Cannabis is a drug that comes from Indian hemp plants such as Cannabis sativa and Cannabis indica. The active chemical in cannabis is THC (delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol).

Cannabis is a depressant drug. Depressants do not necessarily make the person feel depressed. Rather, they affect the central nervous system by slowing down the messages going between the brain and the body.

Cannabis is commonly refered to as:

Acapulco Gold
Ace
Afghan
Afghan Black
African Nigger
Bar
Bhang
Black
Black Rock
Blond Hash
Blunt
Bob Hope
Boo
Boom
Brass
Broccoli
Bud
Buddha
Buddha Grass
Buddha Sticks
Buds
Business
Butter
Canadian Black
Caramello Eggs
Charas
Charge
Chera
Choof
Chronic
Columbian
Cone
Cooch
Cung
Dagga
Dak
Dakka
Delta-9 Tetrahydro-Cannabinol
Dirty
Doobie
Dope
Double Zero
Drabinol
Dry High
Dubbe
Duby
Durban Poison
Elephant Weed
Fingers
Gage
Ganga
Gangster
Ganja
Grammies
Grass
Green
Griffo
Gunga
Happy Tobacco
Hash
Hash Brownies
Hash Cake
Hash Cookies
Hash Oil
Hashish
Hashish Oil
Hay
Heads
Hemp
Herb
Honey
Hooch

Hutch
Hydro
Indian Hemp
Jamaican
Jive
Johnny Cash
Joint
Kief
Kiff
L and T
Leaf
Leaf and Tip
Lebanese Gold
Loco Weed
Marihuana
Marijuana
Mary
Mary Jane
Maui Wowie
Mexican
Mota
Mow the Grass
Mull
Mullumbimby Madness
Nimbin Heads
Northern Lights
Number
Olja
Panama Gold
Panama Red
Peace Weed
Pod
Poop
Pot
Primo
Queensland Heads
Ragweed
Red Seal
Reefer
Roach
Roach Clip
Rocky
Rope
Sativa
Scoob
Scunga
Shit
Sinsemilla
Skin
Skunk
Skunk Weed
Smoke
Smoko
Soles
Spot
Stash
Sticks
Stuff
Super Skunk
T
Takrouri
Tea
Temple Balls
Tetrahydrocannabinols
Texas Tea
Thai Sticks
THC
Toke
Tooting
Torch up
Wacky Backy
Wacky Terbacky
Wasch
Weed
Whackee Backee
Yarhndi
Yarni
Yarnie
Yesca
Yundi
Zani

Methadone

A potent synthetic narcotic drug that is less addictive than morphine or heroin and is used as a substitute for these drugs in addiction treatment programs.

Methadone is commonly refered to as:

Dolly
Dolophine
Done
Dose
Jungle Juice
Junk
Meth
Methadone Linctus
Methadone Mixture
Metho
Petrol
Physeptanef Injections
Physeptone Tablets

Gamma-Hydroxybutyrate

A sedative used both as a sleep-aid and as a recreational intoxicant.

Gamma-Hydroxybutyrate is also refered to as:

G
Georgia Home Boy
GHB
Grievous Bodily Harm
Liquid Ecstasy

Nitrazepam

A powerful hypnotic drug which possesses strong sedative and skeletal muscle relaxant properties

Nitrazepam is commonly referred to as:

Mogadon
Moggies

Temazepam

A Benzodiazepine sedative primarily used to relieve insomnia.

Temazepam is commonly refered to as:

Normies
Normison

Oxazepam

A Benzodiazepine used in the management of anxiety, insomnia, and alcohol withdrawal.

Oxazepam is commonly referred to as:

Serapax
Seras
Serepax
Seres
Serras
Serries