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This is a glossary of local and national drug related terminology.
Bombing/bombs
A drug (usually a powder) wrapped up in a cigarette
paper to form a home-made tablet, and then swallowed.
Bong
Home-made water pipe used for the smoking of cannabis.
Chasing the dragon
Terminology to describe the smoking of heroin.
Clucking
Withdrawing from a drug.
Cutting
Chopping up a drug finely usually in preperation for sniffing
or injecting.
Cold turkey
Withdrawal from a drug with no prescription
medication or substitutes.
Detox
Detoxification.
Dig
Injecting.
Dropping
Swallowing (usually a tablet).
Double dropping
Taking two (tablets) at the same time.
Gear
Term used to describe any drug e.g. have you got
the gear?
Gouching
Under the influence of a drug.
Gouched out
Under the influence of a drug.
Hot knives
Method of smoking cannabis where it is placed between two
heated knives and smoke is inhaled.
Joint
A cannabis cigarette.
Lines
Powdered drugs are often measured out into small lines before
being sniffed up the nose.
Mashed
Under the influence of a drug
Munchies
Effect of cannabis where the user craves food such as
crisps and chocolate.
Popping
Taking a drug, usually in tablet form eg pop
a pill.
Rattle/Rattling
The side effects of not taking a drug that
the user is physically addicted to.
Score
To purchase a drug.
Skin popping
Injecting a drug just under the surface of the skin, not in a vein.
Snort
To sniff up the nose.
Speedball
A combination of cocaine and heroin.
Spliff
A cannabis cigarette.
Stacking
Taking more and more of a particular drug
over a small period of time.
Stoned
Under the influence
of a drug (usually cannabis).
Toke
Taking an inhalation
of a cannabis cigarette.
Wasted
Under the influence of a drug.
Withdrawal
Stopping using a drug after a dependency/addiction
has formed.
Wrap
Small, home made paper envelope used
for packaging powdered drugs.
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