Commonly Abused Substances

Name Street Name Method Effect
Heroin Smack
Horse
Gear
Brown
H
Junk
Scag
Jack		 Injected
Snorted
Smoked		 Drowsiness, Sense of warmth and well being
Cocaine Coke
Charlie
Snow
C		 Snorted
Injected		 Sense of well-being alertness and confidence
Crack Freebase
Rock
Wash
Stone		 Smoked Intense feeling of well-being alertness and confidence
Ecstasy E
XTC
Doves
Disco Biscuits
Echoes
Scooby Doos

 Swallowed Alert and energetic with a calmness and a sense of well being towards others heightened sense of sound and colour
LSD Acid
Trips
Tabs
Dots
Blotters
Microdots		 Swallowed Hallucinations including distorted or mixed up sense of vision, hearing and time. An LSD trip can last as long as 8-12 hours
Magic Mushrooms Shrooms
Mushies		 Eaten
Brewed		 Similar effects to those of LSD but the trip is often milder/softer
Cannabis Hash
Dope
Grass
Blow
Ganja
Weed
Puff
Marijuana		 Smoked
Eaten		 Relaxed, talkative state. Heightened sense of sound and colour
Barbiturates Barbs
Downers		 Swallowed
Eaten		 Calm and relaxed state. Larger doses produce drunken effect
Amphetamines Speed
Whizz
Uppers
Billy
Sulph
Amp		 Ingested
Injected
Snorted		 Stimulates the nervous system wakefulness, feeling of energy an confidence
Tranquilizers Moggies
Wobblies
Mazzies
Jellies		 Swallowed
Injected		 Prescribed for the relief of anxiety and to treat insomnia. High doses cause drowsiness
Anabolic Steroids Various
trade
names		 Swallowed
Injected		 With exercise can help to build up muscle
Alkyl Nitrates Poppers Inhaled Brief and intense head rush caused by sudden surge of blood through the brain