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Glossary Of Drug
Terms Alcohol: The world's most popular drug, legally used in most
countries. Alcohol is produced through the fermentation of fruits, vegetables
and grains.
Amphetamines: Often called 'speed', this drug is a
synthetically produced Central Nervous System (CNS) stimulant with cocaine-like
effects.
Amyl Nitrite: This drug is a yellowish, volatile, inflammable
liquid with a fruity odor called 'snappers' or 'poppers', as they come in glass
capsules that are broken. It is used for heart problems as it dilates the
coronary arteries, allowing more oxygen to reach the heart. Currently, other
vasoditators are preferred such as nitroglycerin "poppers". They are often used
in an effort to enhance sexual climax.
Antibiotics:
These are anti-infection drugs that inhibit the growth of or destroy
microorganisms and are used extensively in treating bacteria-caused diseases.
Antihistamines: These drugs block the effects of the allergy
chemical, histamine, and relieves sneezing, watery eyes, runny nose and itching
of the nose and throat.
Barbiturates:
Drugs commonly used to calm nervousness and induce sleep and are derived from
barbituric acid.
Belladonna: A poisonous hallucinogen found in the Atropa
Belladonna plant, also known as 'devils herb' or 'deadly
nightshade'.
Caffeine: The stimulant drug found in coffee.
Cocaine: A bitter, crystalline drug obtained from the dried
leaves of the coca shrub; it is a local anesthetic and a dangerous, illegal
stimulant; the primary psychoactive ingredient in the coca plant and a
behavioral-affecting drug.
Codeine: This
drug is a derivative of the opium poppy much like morphine, but is less
powerful than morphine or heroin. Codeine is often used for cough relief.
"Crack" Cocaine: The chemical cocaine is found in the oil of
the coca plant leaf; when processed, cocaine is chemically turned into a
water-soluble powder form called "cocaine hydrochloride"; 'Crack' cocaine, much
like "freebasing" cocaine, is cocaine powder that has been turned back into an
oil form of smokable cocaine.
Cutting Agents:
These are various powders that are used to dilute cocaine, heroin and other
drugs used in powder form. Lactose ('milk sugar') is an example, another is
mannitol.
Demerol: This is a synthetically produced narcotic that acts
like morphine or heroin.
Dilaudid: This
drug is a semi-synthetic opiate much like morphine.
Ergot: This is
the name of the fungus Claviceps Purpurea that grows on wheat and rye
plants and is often referred to as 'wheat rust'; LSD comes from the ergot
fungus.
Hashish: Cannabis preparation more potent than marijuana. This
comes from the resinous secretions of the marijuana plant's flowering tops.
Hashish Oil: The extracted oil of the marijuana plant and is
usually dark and sticky.
Baby Hawaiian Wood
Rose: The seeds of this plant, commonly found in dried plant arrangements,
have a lysergic acid derivative; The effects of this drug usually cause nausea
and vomiting as well as hallucinations.
Heroin: A
powerful narcotic that is derived from morphine.
Honey Oil: The
same as hashish oil except it is clear and looks much like honey
does.
Ice: A smokable form of methamphetamine. By smoking the drug
the effect on the body occurs more quickly.
Inhalants: There
are a number of substances that produce strong intoxicating vapors such as
paint, paint thinner, modeling glue, gas liquid whiteout, magic markers and
many others. These substances are very dangerous and are often used by young
people.
Jimsonweed: This is a name for the plant Datura
Stramonium or sometimes called 'locoweed'. This plant contains the powerful
poisonous hallucinogens atropine, scopolamine and hyscocyamine.
LSD:
These letters stand for d-lysergic acid diethylamide. This chemical was
synthesized from ergot in 1938 by Albert Hofmann of the Sandoz Laboratories in
Switzerland; a powerful hallucinogen whose effective dose is 200 to 400
micrograms, a mere speck in size.
Marijuana: The
Cannabis Sativa plant that produces a mild euphoric effect. The active
ingredient that produces the euphoric effect is Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol;
THC. Marijuana can be eaten or smoked in cigarette form or pipes. The oily
resin of the marijuana plant can be produced into hashish or hashish oil.
Mescaline: This is the major hallucinogenic chemical found in
the Peyote cactus. Mescaline is not found in the Mescal cactus from which
tequila is acquired. To add to the potential confusion there is another
hallucinogen found in the highly toxic "mescal bean" of the evergreen shrub
named Sophora secundiflora. These beans do not contain mescaline either,
but do contain the highly toxic chemical "cystine".
MMDA/MDA: These
two chemicals are derived from nutmeg, properly named Myristica
Fragrans. They are both hallucinogenic and their use is illegal. Another
derivative MDMA or 'Ecstasy' was one of the original 'designer drugs' in which
the molecule was altered enough to get around the law, the effect was virtually
the same as its predecessors.
Morning Glory
Seeds: Like the Hawaiian Baby Wood Rose, it contains a lysergic acid
derivative and is hallucinogenic.
Morphine: Is a
powerful narcotic that comes from the opium plant. Heroin is derived from
morphine. This is named after the Greek god Morpheus, the god of
sleep.
Nicotine: This is the drug found in tobacco.
PCP: The full
name of this drug is phencyclidine. This drug was first developed to be used as
a human anesthetic, used only today as a veterinary tranquilizer. Can be
produced easily with common industrial chemicals.
Percodan: This is
a synthetically produced narcotic that acts like morphine or heroin.
"Persian" heroin: This is heroin in a smokable form. Smoking
heroin is often called 'chasing the dragon'.
Peyote: This is
the name of the cacti that contain the hallucinogenic chemical mescaline.
Psilocybe: Often referred to as "magic mushrooms", this fungus contains
two hallucinogens named .psilocybin' and 'psilocin'. There are a number of
other poisonous and hallucinogenic mushrooms.
Quaaludes: A
synthetic sedative drug that was once thought to be safer than barbiturates and
in the 1970s became the most frequently prescribed sedative-hypnotic.
Sinsemilla: There are male and female marijuana plants. The
flowers of the female marijuana contain the highest concentration of THC.
Growers have learned that if the female plants are not allowed to be pollinated
the flowers cluster and excrete greater quantities of resin. Marijuana grown
like this is called "Sinsemilla" which simply means "no seeds".
STP: This synthetically produced hallucinogen is a variation
of mescaline and amphetamines. Generally less potent than LSD, but it takes
longer to breakdown in the body and therefore lasts much longer, in some
instances 24 hours to several days.
Tobacco: The
leaves of the tobacco plant are smoked in cigarettes, cigars, pipes and chewed
as chewing tobacco. Tobacco contains the drug nicotine.
"I learned that drugs aren't
everything they are built up to be. Drugs have taken away two of my closest
friends. I will never try them they are not worth it." - M.H.
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