Slang Terms for Drugs

Charlie, charge, chang, chaz, coke, coca paste, snow, toot, koka, sniff, atta. = cocaine
Pot, herb, mary jane, chronic, draw, ganja, zoot, draw= Marijuana
rock, smack, snowballs = Crack

MARIJUANA

Cannabis, also known as marijuana,ganjaThe herbal form of the drug consists of dried mature Flowers and subtending leaves of pistillate ("female") plants.

Heroin

Crack/cocaine is a highly addictive form of cocaine that is popular for its intense High. It is a form of the drug that is made using baking soda (sodium barcbonate) in a process to convert cocaine hydrochloride (powder cocaine) into freebase cocaine (methylbenzoylecgonine).

Definition of drug

A drug, broadly speaking, is any substance that alters normal bodily function. There is no single, precise definition, as there are different meanings in medicine, government regulations, and colloquial usage

Stastics on Drugs

500,000 - the estimated number of UK class A drug users
6,186 - the number of drug treatment and testing orders issued by courts last year
5,419 - the number of drug treatment and testing orders breached last year
£390m - the national budget for drugs action teams in 2002
£19m - the amount drug action teams spent on detox last year
£3,000 - the lowest cost for an individual detox
6,333 - the maximum number of detoxes paid for by drug action teams
3,800 - the number of users who successfully go through detox
3,500 - the number of places available for them in rehabilitation schemes
2,415 - the number who will complete the course
1,328 - the number who will emerge drug-free

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