Marijuana  

Street Names How Administered**
Blunt, dope, ganja, grass, herb, joints, Mary Jane, pot, reefer, weed Swallowed, smoked
     
Intoxication Effects/Potential Health Consequences
Euphoria, slowed thinking and reaction time, confusion, impaired balance and coordination/cough, frequent respiratory infections; impaired memory and learning; increased heart rate, anxiety, panic attacks; tolerance, addiction
     
Barbiturates    

Street Names How Administered**
Barbs, reds, red birds,
phennies, tooies, yellows,
yellow jackets 		Injected, swallowed
     
Intoxication Effects/Potential Health Consequences
anxiety; felling well-being; lowered inhibitions; slowed pulse and breathing; lowered blood pressure; poor concentration/fatigue; confusion; impaired coordination, memory, judgment; addiction; respiratory depression and arrest; death. Also, for barbiturates-sedation, drowsiness/depression, unusual excitement, fever, irritability, poor judgment, slurred speech, dizziness, life-threatening withdrawal
     
Benzodiazepines  

Street Names How Administered**
Valium, Xanax: candy,
downers, sleeping pills 		Injected, swallowed
     
Intoxication Effects/Potential Health Consequences
sedation, drowsiness/dizziness
 
Methaqualone  
Street Names How Administered**
Quaalude: ludes mandrex,
quad, quay 		Injected, swallowed
Intoxication Effects/Potential Health Consequences
euphoria/depression, poor reflexes, slurred speech, coma
LSD    

Street Names How Administered**
Acid, blotter, boomers,
cubes, microdot, yellow sunshines 		Swallowed, absorved through mouth tissues
Intoxication Effects/Potential Health Consequences
Altered states of perception and feeling; nausea; persisting perception disorder (flashbacks), increased body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure; loss of appetite, sleeplessness, numbness, weakness, tremors, persistent mental disorders
     
Heroin    

Street Names How Administered**
Diacety/morphone: brown
sugar, dope, H, horse, junk, skag, skunk, smack, white horse 		Injected, smoked, snorted
     
Morphine    

Street Names How Administered**
Roxanol, Duramorph: M, Miss Emma, monkey, white stuff Injected, swallowed, smoked
Opium    

Street Names How Administered**
Laudanaum, paregoric: big O, black stuff, block, gum, hop Swallowed, smoked
Oxycodone HCL  

Street Names How Administered**
OxyContin: Oxy, O.C, killer Swallowed, snorted, injected
Hydrocodone bitartrate, acetaminophen

Street Names How Administered**
Vicodin: vike, Watson-387 Swallowed
     
Intoxication Effects/Potential Health Consequences
Pain relief, euphoria, drowsiness/nausea, constipation, confusion sedation, respiratory depression and arrest, tolerance, addiction, unconsciousness, coma, staggering pain, death
Cocaine    

Street Names How Administered**
Cocaine hydrochloride: blow, bump, C, candy, Charlie, coke, crack, flake, rock, snow, toot Injected, smoked, snorted
     
Intoxication Effects/Potential Health Consequences
For cocaine-increased temperature/chest pain, respiratory failure, nausea, abdominal pain, strokes, seizures, headaches, malnutrition, panic attacks.
MDMA (methylenedioxy / methamphetamine)


Street Names How Administered**
Adam, clarity, ecstasy, Eve, lover’s speed, peace, STP, X, XTC Swallowed
 
Intoxication Effects/Potential Health Consequences
For MDMA-mild hallucinogenic effects, increased tactile sensitivity, empathic feelings/impaired memory and learning, hyperthermia, cardiac toxicity, renal failure, liver toxicity.
Methamphetamine  

Street Names How Administered**
Desoxyn: chalk, crank, crystal, fire, glass, go fast, ice, meth, speed Injected, swallowed, smoked, snorted
 
Intoxication Effects/Potential Health Consequences
For methamphetamine-aggression, violence, psychotic behavior/memory loss, cardiac and neurological damage; impaired memory and learning tolerance, addiction.
Methylphenidate (safe and effective for treatment of ADHD)

Street Names How Administered**
Ritalin: JIF, MPH, R-ball,
Skippy, the smart drug,
vitamin R		 Injected, swallowed, snorted
Anabolic Steroids  

Street Names How Administered**
Anadrol, Oxandrin, Durabolin, Depo-Testosterone, Equipoise: roids, juice Injected, swallowed, applied to skin
 
Intoxication Effects/Potential Health Consequences
No intoxication effects/hypertension, blood clotting and cholesterol changes, liver cysts and cancer, kidney cancer, hostility and aggression, acne; in adolescents, premature stoppage of growth; in males, prostate cancer, reduced sperm production, shrunken testicles, breast enlargement; in females, menstrual irregularities, development of beard and other masculine characteristics.
Dextromethorphan (DXM)  

Street Names How Administered**
Found in some cough and
cold medications: Robotripping, Robo, Triple C		 Swallowed
 
Intoxication Effects/Potential Health Consequences
Dissociative effects, distorted visual perceptions to complete dissociative effects/for effects at higher doses see “dissociate anesthetics’.
Inhalants    

Street Names How Administered**
Solvents (paint thinners, gasoline, glues), gases (butane, propane, aerosol propellants, nitrous oxide), nitrites (isoamyl, isobutyl, cyclohexyl): laughing gas, poppers, snappers, whippets Inhaled through nose or mouth
 
Intoxication Effects/Potential Health Consequences
Stimulation, loss of inhibition; headache; nausea or vomiting; slurred speech, loss of motor coordination; wheezing/unconsciousness, cramps, weight loss, muscle weakness, depression, memory impairment, damage to cardiovascular and nervous systems, sudden death.
 
 
 

*Taking drugs by injection can increase the risk of infection through needle contamination with staphylococci, HIV, hepatitis, and other organisms.

 

NIDA-National Institute on Drug Abuse

 

 

Did You Know?

 

Drug use in the workplace costs employers approximately $81 billion in lost productivity.
U.S. Department of Labor

 

 

There are more deaths and disabilities each year in the U.S. from substance abuse than from any other cause.
NIDA

 

 

The typical drug abuser costs a company approximately $7,000 per year.
NIDA