vein brother n.—Gloss: a man with whom you get high on injected drugs, especially if you share a needle. «But nothing in their records, or in their daily appearances around the neighborhood, could foretell what became the macabre final...
scoop out v. phr.— «Effects of overdose: Sleep or deep sedation from which you cannot be awakened by any means for upto three hours or more, and in many cases, death. Passing out while on GHB is sometimes called carpeting out, scooping...
throw down v. phr.— «Effects of overdose: Sleep or deep sedation from which you cannot be awakened by any means for upto three hours or more, and in many cases, death. Passing out while on GHB is sometimes called carpeting out, scooping...
cotton shot n.— «A cotton shot consists of the heroin and blood residues that are “pounded” out of a cotton remnant (sometimes an old cigarette filter) which was used in a previous injecting session to filter the heroin...
biosimilar n.— «The so-called generic versions of biotechnology drugs could never be exact copies. At most, they could be highly similar, which is why the industry avoids the “generic” term and refers to them as “biosimilars” or “follow...
walkaway settlement n.— «The original fen-phen suit was filed in Boone County, Ky., Circuit Court and settled when American Home Products, which manufactured and sold the drug combination, put up $200 million in what is called a...