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Slang Terms for Fentanyl and Other Opioids

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.

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Relative Strengths of Different Types of Opioids

Relative Strengths of Different Types of Opioids

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.

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