Hazardous Substances
Things sold alongside drugs that are not drugs at all. Potassium cyanide and similar substances appear in listings and scams. There is no safe use — this section exists to warn.
Potassium Cyanide (KCN)
White crystalline salt, almond-like odor when damp
Air Duster (Computer Duster / Canned Air)
Aerosol cans of difluoroethane/tetrafluoroethane sold as electronics/computer cleaner
Gasoline / Petrol Huffing
Liquid gasoline/petrol, inhaled from cans, rags, or bags
Glue / Solvent Sniffing
Household glue (model glue, rubber cement), paint thinner, correction fluid, felt-tip markers
Refrigerant / Freon Huffing
Compressed refrigerant gas from air conditioners, freezers, coolant cans
Benadryl (Diphenhydramine) Abuse
Pink/blue tablets (25/50 mg), liquid gels; any pharmacy/grocery store
Scopolamine (Devil's Breath / Burundanga)
Transdermal patches (legit) or white powder blown/blown onto victims (criminal); from borrachero tree (Colombia)
Laxative Abuse (Diet Culture Danger)
OTC laxative pills, senna teas, 'detox/slimming' teas marketed on social media
Detox / Slimming Teas
Herbal teas marketed on Instagram/influencer posts — flat-tummy branding
Betel Quid (Areca Nut / Paan)
Areca nut wrapped in betel leaf with slaked lime (+ tobacco sometimes); chewed and spat or swallowed
Jenkem (Fermented Sewage Gas)
Feces and urine fermented in bottles; gas inhaled
Wild Lettuce (Lactuca virosa)
Dried herb or sticky 'lactucarium' extract from tall wild lettuce; smoked or brewed
Benzydamine (Tantum / Difflam)
Pink/orange oral rinse (0.15%) or lozenges; users drink/extract the rinse
Tropicamide (Eye Drops Abuse)
Ophthalmic 0.5–1% drops; ingested or injected in the Russian/CIS scene
Cyclizine (Marzine / Valoid)
50 mg tablets; UK: injected with methadone in the 'cyclizine' scene
Damiana (Turnera diffusa)
Dried leaf smoked or brewed; found in 'herbal smoke blends' and aphrodisiac teas
Wild Dagga (Leonotis leonurus)
Orange flower clusters dried and smoked; South African traditional ('wild dagga' = wild cannabis, but no cannabinoids)
Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris)
Dried silvery leaf smoked or as tea; European tradition — the original 'weed' before tobacco
California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica)
Dried aerial parts; orange-flowered California state flower; mild sedative teas/tinctures
BTMPS (Tinuvin 770)
White crystalline granules or powder, sold legitimately as a light stabilizer for plastics and coatings; in drug supplies it's an invisible powder cut into fentanyl
Butane & Lighter-Fluid Huffing
Lighter-refill cans, aerosol propellant; inhaled straight from nozzle, through a rag, or from a plastic bag
Chroming (Aerosol Paint Huffing)
Metallic/chrome spray-paint cans inhaled through a cloth or bag — the term is big in Australia but the practice is global
Phenacetin (Cocaine Cutting Agent)
White crystalline powder — the most common bulk cut in European and UK cocaine
Benzo-Dope (Fentanyl + Benzodiazepine)
Purple, pink or greenish fentanyl powder containing etizolam or other benzos — the dominant 'down' in parts of Canada
Kush (West African Synthetic Drug)
Green/brown herbal smoking mix — swept Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Gambia from 2022
Nyaope / Whoonga (South African Street Heroin)
Brownish powder — low-grade heroin cut with anything from antiretrovirals to rat poison; smoked with cannabis in South African townships
Paco / Basuco (Cocaine Paste)
Dirty off-white/yellow smokable chunks — crude intermediate from cocaine production, kerosene and solvent residues included
Speedball (Heroin + Cocaine)
Heroin and cocaine injected or snorted together (or back-to-back)
Goofball (Meth + Heroin/Fentanyl)
Methamphetamine and heroin/fentanyl used together — increasingly one powder sold pre-mixed
'Bath Salts' (Synthetic Cathinone Umbrella)
White/brown powders sold as 'bath salts', 'plant food' or 'research chemicals' — contents are synthetic cathinones (MDPV, mephedrone, PVP-family)
Paracetamol / Acetaminophen Overdose
The world's most common painkiller — in everything from Tylenol to cold remedies to Percocet
Diethyl Ether Drinking & Huffing
Highly volatile solvent; drunk or inhaled in parts of Eastern/Central Europe ('eter' drinking culture)