Depressants

COMMON DRUGS OF ABUSE

2.      Depressants

1. Drug name: Alcohols

Street name: Booze, hooch

Source: Fermentation of saccharine liquids or indirectly of cereals, wood or straw by yeast; distillation.

Usage: Swallowed as liquid.

2. Drug Name: Barbiturates

Street Name: Barbs, red devil, blue devil, downers

Source: Synthetic

Usage: Tablets, capsules, powder and injectable forms. Swallowed or injected.

3. Drug Name: Tranquillizers

Street Name: V’s Blues

Source: Synthetic

Usage: Tablets, injectables. Swallowed or injected.

4. Drug Name: Narcotics (Morphine, heroin, pethidine)

Street Name: Morph power, junk, dreamer (Morphine) smack, horse, scag, joy powder, hard stuff Harry

Source: Opium (poppy plant) derivatives; natural and synthetic

Usage: Morphine and hero in comes in white powders.  They are dissolved in sterilized water and injected.  Some people sniff and inhale the powder through paper rolled straws. Pethidine is injected