Martin Jones

May

2026

Slang Terms for Fentanyl and Other Opioids

Opioids like any other drug, have many slang names. I’m sure these are but a few.

I had to look them up 🙂

Heroin has been around a long time: Black tar, Smack, H, Dope, Junk, Horse, Skag, and Brown Sugar.
Very pure heroin is commonly known as China White

Heroin is often mixed with other substances, creating specific slang combinations. For example, a mix of heroin and cocaine is known as a speedball, Belushi, or boy-girl.
While heroin mixed with crack cocaine is called chocolate rock or dragon rock.

Some slang terms when referencing effects or usage of heroin are: dragon (derived from "chasing the dragon"), nod, or “chasing the dragon”.

Heroin combined with cold medicine is referred to as cheese, and heroin mixed with alprazolam is called bars.

Fentanyl: Apache, China Girl, China Town, TNT, Murder 8, Fetty, and Blues (referring to counterfeit pills resembling Percocet), poison, tango and cash.

Some others: Fenty or Fet, Goodfella, Dance Fever, Jackpot, King Ivory, He-Man.

Fentanyl mixed with xylazine: Trans Dope or Zombie Drug

Oxycodone (including OxyContin and Percocet) is frequently called Oxy, Percs, Roxy, Hillbilly Heroin, OC, 30s, or M30s. Blues, Blue M30s, Perc 30s, M30s. Some of these refer to counterfeit Oxy pills containing fentanyl.

Opium: Big O, or ‘O’, Hop (or Hops), Midnight Oil, Dope, Smack, Chasing the Dragon, Joy Plant, Aunti (referring to the pipe), and Black or Black Tar; black stuff, Chinese tobacco, chocolate, dopium, Dover’s Desk, dream gun, joy plant, zero, amongst other.

Hydrocodone (including Vicodin and Lortab) is often called Hydros, Norco, or Fluff. Vics, Vicos, Vikes, Hydros, Norco, Watsons, 357s or Watson-387, Tabs, and Fluff.

Hydromorphone (Dilaudid): Hydro, Dillies, D, Football, or Juice, Smack, hospital heroin.

Codeine (often in syrup form known as Lean, Sizzurp, or Purple Drank, Captain Cody, Cody, or Schoolboy. Texas tea, dirty sprite, barre, toss, Texas mud, Tsikuni.

Doors and Fours: Codeine combined with glutethimide.

Morphine is referred to as M, Miss Emma, Monkey, White Stuff, or God’s Drug; Mister Blue, Morpho, Dreamer, God’s Drug, Monkey, Unkie, Vitamin M, Salt and Sugar, and White Lady.

Methadone is commonly called Amidone, Dollies, Fizzies, Mud, or Red Rock; Tootsie Roll. Meth, Phy, Junk, Metho, Jungle Juice, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Maria, Pastora, Wafer, and Juice. And sometimes linctus.

Oxymorphone (Opana): Mrs. O, O Bomb, Octagons, Stop Signs, Blue Heaven, Biscuits, Pink Lady, Blues, Pancakes, and Pandas. Octagons, Pink, Pink Heaven, or Pink O

Tramadol: chill pills, trams, trammies, ultras, and tramal.

May

2026

Relative Strengths of Different Types of Opioids

Opioids are pain killers and can be found under numerous names, actual and street names. A few are created more naturally from the Opium poppy, some are part natural and some fully synthetic.

Opium
Codeine

Morphine

Semi synthetic opiates:

Heroin
Oxycodone (OxyContin, Percocet)
Hydrocodone
Hydromorphone

Fully synthetic:

Fentanyl

Methadone

Carfentanil

We’ll measure relative strengths of all of these from a base of one (1) for Morphine.

Opium is about 1/10 the strength of Morphine

Codeine is approximately 1/10 the strength of Morphine.
Tramadol is approximately 2/10ths the strength of Morphine.

Hydrocodone: about the same as Morphine

Oxycodone or Percocet: 1&1/2 - 2 times the strength of Morphine.

Hydromorphone: 5-7 times the strength of Morphine

Fentanyl: 50-100 times the strength of Morphine

Carfentanil: 10,000 times the strength of Morphine

Fentanyl particularly, and occasionally Carfentanil are often added to other drugs.
Marijuana for example can be made much more addictive by adding Fentanyl.
It also increases the intensity of the high.
And because one gets an increased tolerance, the user needs to constantly increase the dose.

This is all wonderful for the dealer.
Remember that drugs are about the money, not your well being.

The opioid dealer isn’t going to tell you that you could become addicted for life in a very short time or that the drug may kill you.

May

2026

The ‘Fentanyl Fold’ – What Causes it?

The ‘Fentanyl Fold’ - What Causes This?

This is horribly sad but…

Fentanyl is extremely potent. 100% Synthetic it is 100 times more powerful than Oxycodone. And about 50 times stronger than heroin.

Fentanyl is 100% synthetic, whereas heroin, morphine and oxycodone are derived from the poppy plant.

There is another product on the market called ‘carfentanil’ which is said to be about one million times more powerful than oxycodone.

Fentanyl triggers severe nervous system depression. As a result the user has very rapid loss of muscle tone and muscle control.

The brain isn’t working properly thus not communicating with the muscles. One can no longer hold himself upright.

Fentanyl also depresses the respiratory system by covering certain receptors in the body. These receptors tell the body to breathe when there is too much carbon dioxide. If the receptors are blocked, no signal and one suffocates.

The main culprit causing the fentanyl fold, though, is the neurological weakening of the musculature. The muscle tone/strength is gone or lessened and the user ‘folds’. So, even if the person was trying to stand or sit straight they would not be able to.

Is Fentanyl Addictive?

Add to this the fact that fentanyl is extremely addictive.

Dependence and addiction can developing within just weeks of regular use. It significantly alters brain activity to reinforce compulsive drug-seeking behaviour. This can happen even when properly prescribed by a doctor.

Fentanyl increases dopamine activity in the brain’s reward circuitry, creating intense euphoria while simultaneously causing withdrawal symptoms when the drug wears off.

Because a user quickly develop a tolerance, he will require higher and higher doses to achieve the same effects. Severe withdrawal symptoms combined with this euphoria makes stopping very difficult and impossible for some. All this increases the risk of overdose, evidenced by the number of deaths from this drug.

Opioids like any other drug, have many slang names. I’m sure these are but a few.

Relative Strengths of Different Types of Opioids

Semi synthetic opiates:

Fully synthetic:

The ‘Fentanyl Fold’ - What Causes This?

Is Fentanyl Addictive?

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