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...
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...
flash blood n.— «Many injecting drug users share dirty needles or use a dangerous cash-saving technique known as “flash blood,” in which a user injects heroin or another illicit substance and then draws a syringe full of blood...
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...