Acid head: Heavy user of LSD.
Bad Or Bum Or Freak Out Trip: An LSD experience in which the drug effects are unpleasant and sometimes frightening. It usually lasts from 8 to 12 hours.
Busted: To be arrested.
Cutting: Mixing a drug, usually a narcotic, with other substances.
Flip: To go psychotic.
Flashback: A transitory, spontaneous recurrence of drug-induced experience in a drug-free state.
Guide: A person who “babysits” the psychedelic user during a session.
Hangover: Temporary illness usually following recovery from drunkenness.
Mainlining: Intravenous (IV) injection.
Shooting: Intravenous (IV) injection.
Pot: Marijuana.
Physical Dependence: Physiologic requirement for a drug to prevent symptoms of withdrawal.
Psychological Dependence: The mind needs to continue taking a drug (craving) for its pleasurable effects or to avoid discomfort.
Return Trip: Reappearance of LSD-like effects long after the last dose of LSD was taken.
Skin popping: i.m injection.
Trip: Effects of LSD.
Psychotomimetic: Psychosis mimicking.
Soft Drugs: Amphetamine, Barbiturates, Cannabis, LSD.
Hard Drugs: Opium, Heroin, Cocaine, Methedrine.
| Type of Substance | Examples | Street Names | Attempt to copy the effects of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Synthetic Cannabinoids | “Herbal Smoking Blends” | K2, Spice, Kronik, Northern Lights | Cannabis |
| Synthetic Cathinones | Mephedrone Methylone MDPV | Meow Meow, M-Kat M1 Ivory Wave, Bath Salts | MDMA/Ecstasy, methamphetamine |
| Synthetic Piperazines | BZP, TFMPP | A2, Rapture | MDMA/Ecstasy, methamphetamine, hallucinogens |
| Substituted Phenethylamines | 2C-x family: 2C-l, 2C-B NBOMe family: 25l-NBOMe, 25B-NBOMe, 25C-NBOMe. DOI 6-APB | Trypstacy, Bromo, TWO’s N-Bomb Death on Impact Benzo Fury | MDMA/Ecstasy, methamphetamine, hallucinogens |
| Dissociative Anaesthetics | Methoxetamine | MXE, Moxy | Ketamine |
| Substituted Tryptamines | 5-MeO-DMT | Foxy | Hallucinogens |
