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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.

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

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