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Street & Commercial Names

The names below were compiled from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) "Commonly Abused Drugs Chart" as of July 2017.

The content of this guide will be updated in the upcoming months.

Heroin

Street Names: Brown sugar, China White, Dope, H, Horse, Junk, Skag, Skunk, Smack, White Horse, With OTC cold medicine and antihistamine: Cheese

Prescription Opioids

Commercial Names: Codeine
Street Names: Captain Cody, Cody, Lean, Schoolboy, Sizzurp, Purple Drank With gluteth- imide: Doors & Fours, Loads, Pancakes and Syrup

Commercial Names: Fentanyl, Actiq, Duragesic, Sublimaze
Street Names: Apache, China Girl, China White, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfella, Jackpot, Murder 8, Tango and Cash, TNT

Commercial Names: Hydrocodone, Vicodin®, Lortab®, Lorcet®
Street Names: Vike, Watson-387

Commercial Names: Hydromorphone, Dilaudid®
Street Names: D, Dillies, Footballs, Juice, Smack

Commercial Names: Meperidine, Demerol®
Street Names: Demmies, Pain Killer

Commercial Names: Methadone, Dolophine®, Methadose®
Street Names: Amidone, Fizzies With MDMA: Chocolate Chip Cookies

Commercial Names: Morphine, Duramorph®, Roxanol®
Street Names: M, Miss Emma, Monkey, White Stuff

Commercial Names: Oxycodone, OxyContin®, Percodan®, Percocet®
Street Names: O.C., Oxycet, Oxycotton, Oxy, Hillbilly Heroin, Percs

Commercial Names: Oxymorphone, Opana®
Street Names: Biscuits, Blue Heaven, Blues, Mrs. O, O Bomb, Octagons, Stop Signs