Learning the lingo can help you understand whether someone you love is talking about drugs and what drugs they might be using or even combining. We’ve listed formal names for drugs and street names in the tables below to help you demystify what some of these terms mean. [1]
Cannabis
| Formal Name | Street Names |
| Marijuana (loose) | 420 Aunt Mary Bud Chronic Dope Ganja Grass Green Herb Hydro Jane Mary Jane Pot Skunk |
| Marijuana (rolled) | Blunt Joint Reefer Spliff Smoke |
| Hashish | Dabs Gangster Hash |
CNS Depressants
| Formal Name | Street Name |
| Alcohol | Booze Bottle Drink Firewater Grog Hooch Juice Liquid Courage Rotgut Sauce Spirit |
| Clonazepam (Klonopin) | Benzo Chill Pill K K-Pin Nerve Pin Super Valium |
| Chlordiazepoxide (Librium) | Candy Downers Sleeping Pills Tranks |
| Diazepam (Valium) | Eggs Jellies Moggies Vallies |
| GHB (gamma hydroxybutyrate) | Blue Nitro Cherry Meth Georgia Home Boy GHB Grievous Bodily Harm Liquid Ecstasy Soap Scoop |
| Flunitrazepam (Rohypnol) | Circles Date Rape Drug Forget-Me Pill Lunch Money Mind Eraser Rib Roaches Roapies Roofies Ruffies Wolfies |
| Secobarbital (Seconal) | Block Busters Christmas Trees Downers Red Devils Reds |
| Pentobarbital (Nembutal) | Barbs Downers Phennies Reds Red birds Yellow jackets |
| Phenobarbital (Luminal; Nembutal) | Downers Phennies Trangs |
CNS Stimulants
| Formal Name | Street Name |
| Amphetamine (Adderall) | A-Train Addie Amps Bennies Christmas Tree Co-Pilot LA Turnaround Smarties Smart Pills Speed Truck Drivers Uppers |
| Cocaine | Blow Bump Candy Charlie Coca Coke Flake Snow Toot |
| Crack Cocaine | Black Rock Crack Gravel Rock Supercoke Window pane |
| Methamphetamine | Chalk Cristina Cookies Crank Crystal Crystal Meth Fire Gak Ice Meth No Doze Poor Man’s Coke Redneck Cocaine Rocket Fuel Speed Tina Trash White Cross |
Dissociative Anesthetics
| Formal Name | Street Name |
| Ketamine | Cat Tranquilizer Cat Valium Honey Oil Jet Keller Kelly’s Day Kit Kat Special K Special La Coke Super Acid Vitamin K |
| PCP | Angel Dust Animal Tranquilizer Bella Donna Boat Embalming Fluid Hog Killer Weed Love Boat Worm Ozone Peace Pill Shermans Wack |
| Dextromethorphan | CCC Cousin DXM Poor Man’s PCP Red Devil Robo Sizzurp Skittles Triple C |
Hallucinogens
| Formal Name | Street Name |
| LSD | Acid Blotter Acid Dots Haze Headlights Heavenly Blue Instant Zen Jesus Christ Acid Kaleidoscope Leary Lens Lime Acid Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Mellow Yellow |
| MDMA | Adam Beans Candy Clarity Dancing Shoes Disco Biscuits E Ecstasy Eve Happy Pills Hug Love Drug Lover’s Speed Molly Smartees Vitamin X X |
| Peyote | Buttons Cactus Half Moon Mesc Nubs Shaman |
| Psilocybin | Magic Mushroom Mushroom Purple Passion Shrooms |
Narcotic Analgesics
| Formal Name | Street Name |
| Buprenorphine (Suboxone) | Big Whites Bup Buse Oranges Small Whites Sobos Strips Subs |
| Codeine | Captain Cody Cody Lean Little C Purple Drank Schoolboy |
| Fentanyl (Actiq) | Apache China Girl China Town China White Dance Fever Goodfella Great Bear He-Man Jackpot Murder 8 Poison Tango and Cash TNT |
| Heroin | Beast China White Dope H Horse Black Tar Skag Smack Junk |
| Hydrocodone (Vicodin) | Bananas Dro Tabs Vike Watson-387 357 |
| Hydromorphone (Dilaudid) | Big D Dillies Dust Footballs Juice M-80s Peaches Smack |
| Meperidine (Demerol) | Demmies Dillies Dust |
| Methadone (Dolophine) | Amidone Dolls Dollies Fizzies Mud Red Rock Tootsie Rolls |
| Morphine (MS Contin) | Dreamer Emsel First Line God’s Drug Hows Miss Emma Mister Blue Morpho Monkey Unkie White Stuff |
| Oxycodone (OxyContin; Percocet) | Blueberries Greenies Hillbilly Heroin Kickers O.C. Oxycotton Oxy Oxycet Percs Rims Roxy Tires |
| Oxymorphone (Opana) | Biscuits Blue Heaven Mrs. O O Bomb Octagon Stop Signs |
| Opium | Aunti Aunti Emma Big O Black Pill Chandu Chinese Molasses Chinese Tobacco Dopium Dream Gun Drop Dover’s Powder Guma Midnight Oil |
| Tramadol (Ultram) | Chill Pills Trammies Ultras |
A Constantly Evolving List of Street Names
The list of common street names for drugs is continually evolving.[2] If you hear a loved one using these terms, it can be the prompt to start a conversation about drug use. It could be the first step toward them getting help if they are struggling with substance use.
Medically Reviewed By Elena Hill, MD, MPH
Elena Hill, MD; MPH received her MD and Masters of Public Health degrees at Tufts Medical School and completed her family medicine residency at Boston Medical Center. She is currently an attending physician at Bronxcare Health Systems in the Bronx, NY where ... Read More
- Seven Drug Categories. International Association of Chiefs of Police. https://www.theiacp.org/7-drug-categories. Accessed March 2023.
- Slang Terms and Code Words: A Reference for Law Enforcement Personnel. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2018-07/DIR-022-18.pdf. July 2018. Accessed March 2023.
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