Have You Warned Your Kids About Schwag?
If you're a parent, you might want to brush up on your drug slang to stay alert to possible drug use by your children, suggest addiction experts at the Menninger Clinic in Houston.
Slang terms for drugs constantly change and evolve, the researchers said. For example, while marijuana is still called weed or pot by some, it's also referred to by newer terms such as chronic or schwagg.
Are they serious? Dr. Dre’s marijuana-themed album "The Chronic" came out in 1992. And "schwag" of course is a derogatory term for really bad marijuana that’s been in use forever as far as I know.
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2. The painkiller Oxycontin is also called: a) oxies; b) cotton.
They say only (b) is a correct answer. So if your child asks to borrow money so he can get some "oxies" go ahead and help out.
6. Combining the prescription drug Viagra with Ecstasy is called: a) 24-7 heaven; b) sextasy.
Answer: (b) Parents who’ve let their daughter go to "sextacy" parties will be shocked to learn the truth. But no, I don’t think we have to worry about Congress banning Viagra anytime soon.
8. Working Man's Cocaine is: a) crack cocaine; b) methamphetamine.
Answer: (b). Meth users have jobs? I heard all they did was rob gas stations and pluck out their eyebrows.
10. "Juice" is the slang term for: a) steroids; b) PCP.
Answer: both. So if you overhear your kid using the word "juice" they're either on steroids or PCP. The hard part is figuring out which.
This is the sort of useless information one can expect from "addiction experts" who regularly turn out to know less about drugs than everybody else.
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This reminds me of Thomas Szasz's comment that "The War on Drugs has had many undesirable consequences, not least among them the mass production of experts on drug abuse."
Of course, Hunter S. Thompson did a great take on the drug abuse expert in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; the movie translated the "expert lecture" scene beautifully, with the different levels of the drug culture: square, hip, and cool.
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Thomas Szasz has many interesting things to say about drug policy.
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