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...
chipping n.— «“I was just chipping,” Cross says. That’s a street term that means she’d use whatever drug she could get. “Coke, heroin, anything you can shoot, I was shooting it.”» —“Addiction Center set her on path...
juice bar n. a methadone clinic, especially one that is seen to encourage addiction rather than cure it. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
gronk n.— «Those were the days when myth said heroin was just another drug, a creative juice, before methadone and dereliction, before decent people turned into evil little gronks, before so many talented people died.» —“Where the...
monster n.— «As a heroin user, she never tracked how much she injected each day or how much money “the monster,” as she calls her addiction, demanded she raise.» —“Managing her ‘monster’” by Tom...