10/30/2015 Drug Substance “Slang” You Should Know October 30, 2015 By: AddictionTreatment.org Many addictive substances have entire subcultures – complete with specialized terminology to distinguish those "in the know" from outsiders – surrounding them. Learning these words and phrases can give you insight into the addict's world and help you recognize and better understand their behavior. The terms below are only a small sample of the vocabulary associated with marijuana, cocaine, and heroin. Please Read This: Addiction And Seniors MarijuanaHit: To take a puff from a cigarette or pipe.Dusting: Adding another drug (like heroin or PCP) to marijuana)Munchies: A common side effect of marijuana use, intense hunger and/or cravings.Shotgun: When one user exhales after taking a hit and another user inhales the smoke that the other produces.Snowcap: To sprinkle cocaine over marijuana before taking a hit from a bong.Wet Daddy: To dip a joint or cigarette into a liquid, usually embalming fluid, and lace it with PCP. Also called wet, crazy Eddie, purple rain, water-water, drank, and illy.Candy Blunt: A cigar is laced with marijuana then dipped in codeine-type cough syrup.Hookah: Also called a hubbly bubbly, a pipe that is used to smoke marijuana or tobacco.Tea head: Someone who frequently uses marijuana.CocaineSnow Lights: Visual hallucinations that occur after heavy use causing flickering at the edge of the user's field of vision.Speedball: Injecting a combination of heroin and cocaine.Bunk: Fake cocaine.Blow Smoke: To administer cocaine by inhaling it.Body Packer: Someone who swallows packaged cocaine to transport it.Behind the Scale: To be a dealer; to weigh cocaine and sell it.Chalked Up: High on cocaine.Sandwich: A layer of heroin between two layers of between two layers of cocaine.Coke Bugs:When the user has a tactile hallucination that bugs are digging into their skin.Heroin You Might Like This: What To Ask A Rehab Facility Cotton Shooter: Cotton is used to filter heroin. A cotton shooter is an addict who injects the residue from the cotton in a desperate attempt to not waste any heroin.Give Wings: To teach someone else (someone new to the habit) to inject heroin or to inject them directly.Chasing the Dragon: When heroin is heated and the vapors produced are inhaled.Monkey on the Back: To be addicted to heroin.Tap the bags: When a dealer adulterates the substance or removes a certain amount, thereby short-changing the customer.Super Flu: Heroin withdrawal symptoms.Eight Ball: Crack and heroin mixed together.Cook: Prepare heroin for injection by mixing it with water and heating it.Take-off Artists: Heroin users who steal heroin from other users.