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SCOTTISH ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON DRUG MISUSE: Psychostimulant Working Group Report
GLOSSARY
Street Name/Term | Definition |
Amph | Amphetamine Sulphate |
Base | Cocaine hydrochloride / Amphetamine |
Brown and White | The simultaneous supply of a bag of heroin with one of cocaine or crack |
Charlie | Cocaine hydrochloride |
Coke | Cocaine |
Crack | Cocaine hydrochloride "washed" and then baked into rocks using sodium bicarbonate (Crack is thought to be less clean than most freebase due to the bicarbonate being less efficient at cleaning the cocaine of impurities) |
Crystal | Methamphetamine. "crystals " may be used to describe amphetamine |
Flake | Cocaine hydrochloride |
Freebase | Cocaine hydrochloride "washed" (mixed and then dried or baked) in ether or ammonia |
Freebasing | Converting cocaine hydrochloride to base followed by vaporisation then inhalation |
Hot ice | Smokeable amphetamine |
House fee | Fee paid to enter a crack house |
House piece | Crack given to the owner of a crack house or apartment where crack users congregate |
Ice | Methamphetamine, also methadone |
Inhale | Breathe in |
Inhalation | The method of applying drugs in a finely divided or gaseous state so that on being breathed in, they may come in contact with the nose throat or lungs |
Line | Powdered cocaine hydrochloride or amphetamine sulphate powder laid out in a line ready to snort |
Lung | Flexible plastic smoking apparatus which when squeezed enables smoke held within it to be forcibly ejected. Often comprises an adapted plastic coca cola bottle |
Meth | methamphetamine; methadone |
Neuropsychological | The study of the relationship between the brain and behaviour. Ability to diagnose specific cognitive and behavioural deficits and to prescribe rehabilitation strategies for their recovery |
Neurotoxins | Toxins that act specifically on nervous tissue |
Nuggets | Cocaine |
Rock | Freebase cocaine |
Run | Repeated administration of an intoxicating substance several times in a short space of time. Common with cocaine, crack/freebase |
Snorting | The inhalation of dry powdered drug into the nose |
Snow | Cocaine |
Speed | Amphetamine sulphate |
Speedball/snowball | Mixed injection of cocaine and heroin |
Stinkers | Ammonia or ether used to "wash" freebase cocaine |
Sulph | Amphetamine sulphate |
Upper | Any stimulant drug - usually amphetamines |
Wash/wash out | Process of obtaining cocaine base from cocaine hydrochloride |
White | Cocaine |
Whizz | Amphetamine |
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