Last Updated: January 16, 2024
Street drugs are common illicit drugs you can buy on the street. Two of the most commonly used street drugs are heroin and cocaine. Many people consider cocaine and heroin to be hard-core street drugs, but increasingly, younger people in all kinds of communities across the country are using these dangerous drugs.
Heroin and cocaine both have a huge impact on the health of the brain and the body. Both are illegal and highly addictive. They are commonly snorted, smoked, and injected. Sometimes these drugs are used in combination, which can be even more dangerous. Other names for cocaine include blow, bump, C, candy, coke, crack, rock, and snow. Heroin sometimes goes by smack, horse, dope, skin, skag, white horse, and brown sugar.
Crystal meth is another common street drug. The effects of crystal meth are devastating. In the short-term, users will become sleep-deprived and anxious, and in the long-term, it will cause their flesh to sink, as well as brain damage and damage of the blood vessels. The TV series Breaking Bad showed the very dangerous conditions surrounding the production, sale, and use of methamphetamine. Users are often called tweakers.
It doesn't end there, either. New substances are always showing up.
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A synthetic opiate-like fentanyl that produces a heroin-like high; 100 times more powerful than fentanyl and10,000 times more powerful than morphine
Similar to bath salts; resembles small white rocks, hence the name "gravel." Can be cut with anything from clonazepam (a muscle relaxer) to rat poison
Made from the leaf of a tree indigenous to Thailand. It's a psychoactive plant that can act as a stimulant or depressant, depending on the dosage. It's dangerously addictive
A codeine syrup known as promethazine-codeine, a prescription cough syrup. Its active ingredients are codeine, a narcotic, and the antihistamine promethazine. Effects are sedation and altered levels of consciousness
A dangerous stimulant similar to amphetamines. The side effects are agitation, paranoia, hallucinations, chest pain, suicidality, high blood pressure, and increased pulse
A mixture of herbal and spice plant products, sprayed with a potent psychotropic drug and often contaminated with unknown toxic substances. Effects are hallucinations, vomiting, agitation, violent behavior
This is ketamine with hallucinatory effects similar to PCP. It's often known as a date rape drug
A variation of ecstasy. Users are unable to regulate body temperature, heart rate, and breathing
More potent than heroin. ERs stock naloxone, an antidote to acetyl fentanyl and other opioids
For more common street drugs along with slang names, please see the boxes at the end of the page
If you suspect a family member, friend, child, or co-worker is using illicit drugs, there are signs and symptoms to look for, including:
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There are many slang names for the above drugs and combinations of these drugs, some of which we've listed below:
