Words like “hello” and “how are you” have many different terms to express the same thing. Well, drugs are exactly the same. There are many different street names for drugs. We have compiled a list of the most common drugs and their other names. This way if you hear a loved one using these terms you have a better idea of what is going on and know if you need to consider counseling.

Amphetamine:

Bennies, black beauties, crosses, crosses, hearts, LA turnaround, speed, truck drivers, and uppers. 

Cocaine: 

Blow, bump, flake, candy, coke, do a line, skiing, happy dust, snow, and white powder. 

Crack: 

Base, beat, blast, casper, chalk, gravel, hardball, kryptonite, stones, devil drug, hell, love, moonrocks, scrabble, and tornado. 

Depressants: 

Backwards, blue heavens, downie, drowsy high, green dragons, idiot pills, joy juice, M&M, no worries, peanut, rainbows, red bullets, stoppers, stumbler, tooles, and yellow. 

GHB: 

Georgia home boy, grievous bodily harm, liquid ecstasy, soap, scoop, goop, and liquid X. 

Heroin: 

Aunt Hazel, big H, black pearl, brown sugar, capital H, charley, china white, dope, good horse, H, hard stuff, hero, heroina, little boy, mud, perfect high, smack, stuff, and tar. 

Ketamine:

Bump, cat killer, cat valium, fort dodge, green, honey oil, jet, K, ket, kit kat, psychedelic heroin, purple, special “K”, special la coke, super acid, super C, and vitamin K. 

LSD: 

A, acid, black star, blotter, boomers, blue heaven, cubes, Elvis, golden dragon, L, microdot, paper acid, pink robots, superman, twenty-five, yellow sunshine, and ying yang. 

Marijuana: 

420, Aunt Mary, baby, boom, blunt, joint, trees, chira, chronic, ditch ganja, grass, greens, hash, herb, Mary Jane, nigra, Pot, reefer, rip, root, skunk, stack, torch, weed, and zambi. 

MDMA: 

Adam, bean, blue kisses, clarity, club drug, disco biscuits, E, Eve, ecstasy, hug drug, love drug, lover’s speed, Mercedes, New Yorkers, peace, roll, molly, white dove, X, and XTC. 

Methamphetamine: 

Beanies, blue devils, chalk, CR, crank, crystal, crystal meth, fast, fire, glass, go fast, granulated orange, ice, meth, Mexican crack, pink, rock, speckled birds, speed, tina, and yellow powder. 

PCP: 

Angel dust, belladonna, black whack, boat, CJ, cliffhanger, crystal joint, Detroit pink, elephant tranquilizer, hog, magic, love boat, Peter Pan, peace pill, sheets, soma, TAC, tank, white horizon, and zoom. 

Psilocybin/psilocin:

Boomers, god’s flesh, little smoke, magic mushroom, Mexican mushrooms, mushrooms, musk, sherm, shrooms, shrooming, silly putty, simple simon.

Ritalin:

Crackers, one and ones, pharming, poor man’s heroin, R-ball, rtiz, an ts, set, skippy, speedball, ts and rtiz, ts and rs, vitamin R, and west coast. 

Rohypnol:

Circles, forget-me pill, la rocha, lunch money drug, Mexican valium, pingus, R2, Reynolds, roche, roofies, rope, ruffles, and wolfies.

These street names are constantly changing, but we hope this helps you know exactly what people are talking about. At Solace Counseling, you and your loved ones physical and emotional health is our utmost concern. If you or someone you know is using these terms it is important to seek help. Our counselors can get you or your loved one on the road to recovery. For more information about drug addiction and counseling follow us on Facebook and Twitter.