
List of polysubstance combinations
Poly drug use refers to the use of two or more psychoactive drugs in combination to achieve a particular effect. In many cases one drug is used as a base or primary drug, with additional drugs to leaven or compensate for the side effects of the primary drug and make the experience more enjoyable with drug synergy effects, or to supplement for primary drug when supply is low.
When combining euphoric stimulants and depressants, such as amphetamines and opioids, the sedative and stimulant effects may cancel out, allowing a higher dose of depressants. If the stimulant's effect wears off first, the user may be overwhelmed by depressant effects such as respiratory depression. These "speed-ball" combinations are also significantly more risky and addictive than either substance alone.[3]
A study among treatment admissions found that it is more common for younger people to report polydrug drug use.[4]
Common combinations
Drug 1 | Drug 2 | Drug 3 | Poly drug name[5] | Intoxication name | Comment |
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Any drug | Black tar heroin | Whoonga | Widespread use in South Africa | ||
Any drug | Cannabis | Amp joint | Marijuana cigarette laced with some form of narcotic | ||
Any drug | Nicotine | Cooler | A cigarette laced with a drug | ||
Any depressant | Any stimulant | Over and under | Depressant effects are often used to gauge intoxication, causing one to overintoxicate themselves. If the stimulant effects wear off first, respiratory depression may occur. | ||
Any pharmaceutical | Any pharmaceutical | Polypharmacy. Pharming, Pharm-hopping | |||
Any synthetic opioid | Any opioid | Gray death | |||
8-chlorotheophylline | Diphenhydramine | Nonproprietary name: Dimenhydrinate. Street slang: drama, dime" dime tabs, D-Q, substance D, d-house, and drams.[6] | Dramatizing or "going a dime a dozen", a reference to the amount of Dramamine tablets generally necessary for a trip.[7] | ||
Alcohol | Caffeine | Caffeinated alcoholic drink | Caffeine, a stimulant, masks some of the depressant effects of alcohol, may cause overintoxication. | ||
Alcohol | Cannabis | Herb and Al | Cross fading | ||
Alcohol | Cocaine | Snow-coning | Metabolized into a cocaethylene | ||
Alcohol | Nicotine | Nicotini | |||
Amphetamine | Cocaine | Snow seals | |||
Amphetamine | Ketamine | Ketamphetamine | May increase blood pressure | ||
Banisteriopsis caapi | β-Carbolines containing plants (eg Peagnum harmala) | Ayahuasca, changa | |||
Caffeine | Cannabis | Hippie-speedballing | |||
Caffeine | Methamphetamine | Biker's coffee, Ya ba | Generally unnecessary and may increase strain on the heart, anxiety and physical discomfort. | ||
Cannabis | Crack-cocaine | Crack weed (less known: champagne, chronic, cocktail, dirty joint, fry daddy, gimmie, gremmies, juice joint, lace, oolies, p dog, primo, splitting, thirty eight, turbo, wollie, yeola) | Cocoa puffs[8] | ||
Cannabis | Crack-cocaine | PCP | Jim Jones | ||
Cannabis | DXM | Nicotine | Candy blunt | Cannabis is commonly used to reduce the strong nausea from the onset and come-up of DXM. CBD inhibits the enzyme CYP2D6, responsible for metabolising DXM into Dextorphan, which is responsible for the more dissociative effects of DXM | |
Cannabis | Heroin | Atom bomb, stuff | |||
Cannabis | Heroin or opium | A-bomb | |||
Cannabis | Opium | Buddha | |||
Cannabis | PCP | Killer weed (less known: clickums, donk, dust blunt, illies, illing, leak, love leaf, lovelies, parsley, zoom) | |||
Cannabis | Nicotine | Blunt, joint, spliff | Stoned | A rolled marijuana cigarette usually made with rolling paper. A blunt is a cigar hollowed out and filled with marijuana. It is rolled with the tobacco-leaf "wrapper" from an inexpensive cigar. Blunts take their name from Phillies Blunt brand cigars. | |
THC | CBD | Nonproprietary name: Nabiximols | |||
Cocaine | Heroin | Snowball, murder one, whiz bang | Snowballing | ||
Cocaine | Heroin | LSD | Frisco special[9] | ||
Cocaine | Heroin | Nicotine | flamethrower, primos | Cigarette laced with cocaine and heroin | |
Cocaine | Heroin or morphine | Speedball, powerball | Speedballing, powerballing | Speedballing, powerballing is often used to describe intravenous use. The term can also be applied to use of pharmaceutical opioids, benzodiazepines or barbiturates along with stimulants. | |
Cocaine | Ketamine | CK, Calvin Klein, Pony Snow | |||
Cocaine | LSD | Cracid (or outer limits) | |||
Cocaine | Morphine | C & M | |||
Codeine | Glutethimide | Pancakes and syrups | Combination of glutethimide and codeine cough syrup | ||
Codeine | Promethazine | Medicines: Kefei and Procodin. Street slang: Lean, also known as purple drank, and oil. Less known as: sizzurp, lean, syrup, drank, barre, purple jelly, Texas tea, dirty Sprite, and Tsikuni) | |||
Crack-cocaine | Heroin | Chocolate rock, dragon rock, eightball, moonrock, smoking gun, tar | |||
Crack-cocaine | LSD | Outerlimits | |||
Crack-cocaine | Methamphetamine | Fire, twisters | |||
Crack-cocaine | PCP | Nicotine | Ozone | PCP and crack cigarette | |
Crack-cocaine | PCP | Missile basing, P-funk, space basing,[10] spaceball, space cadet, space dust, tragic magic | |||
Crack-cocaine | Nicotine | Coolie, crimmie, woolas | A cigarette laced with crack | ||
DMT | MAOIs | Ayahuasca, Pharmahuasca | Ayahuasca is brewed using natural plant matter.
Pharmahuasca is a more pharmaceutical-style preparation of the psychoactive ingredients | ||
DXM | LSD | LSDXM | |||
DXM | Psilocybin or psilocybin mushroom | Cherry-bombing | |||
GHB | Methamphetamine | Cherry meth | |||
Hashish | Atropa belladonna | Alamout Black Hash[11] | Mixed | ||
Hashish | LSD | Royal Temple Ball | The hashish is mixed with LSD and rolled into a ball intended for oral use, because LSD cannot be smoked. | ||
Hashish | Opium | Black hash | |||
Heroin | Morphine | New Jack swing | |||
LSD | Nitrous oxide | Gasid | |||
LSD | PCP | Black acid | |||
LSD | Psilocybin or psilocybin mushroom | God's flesh | |||
LSD | MDMA | 2C-B | Ali Flip | Ali Flipping | Ali Flipping is a mix of a Candy Flip and a Nexus Flip. |
MDMA | 2C-B | Nexus flip, honey flip[12] | Nexus flipping, honey flipping | ||
MDMA | 2C-E | Sparkle flip[13] | Sparkle flipping | ||
MDMA | 2C-I | Science flip | Science flipping | ||
MDMA | 2C-T-7 | Lucky flip | Lucky flipping | ||
MDMA | Alcohol | Tipsy flip | Tipsy flipping | ||
MDMA | Cocaine | Sugar flip[14] | Sugar flipping | ||
MDMA | Cocaine | LSD | Candy-flip on a string | Candy-flipping on a string | |
MDMA | DMT | Shaman flip, time flip | Shaman flipping, time flipping | ||
MDMA | DXM | Robo flip[15] | Robo flipping | ||
MDMA | GHB | Gamma flip[16] | Gamma flipping | ||
MDMA | Ketamine | Kitty flip[17] | Kitty flipping | ||
MDMA | Ketamine | GHB | EKG. The "E" is for Ecstasy. | ||
MDMA | LSD | Candy flip[18] | Candy flipping | ||
MDMA | LSD | Psilocybin or psilocybin mushroom | Jedi flip, twilight flip[19][20] | Jedi flipping, twilight flipping | |
MDMA | MDEA | Adam and Eve | |||
MDMA | Mescaline or psychedelic cactus | Love flip[21] | Love flipping | ||
MDMA | Methadone | Chocolate flip | Chocolate flipping | ||
MDMA | Methamphetamine | Trailer flip | Trailer flipping | ||
MDMA | Nitrous oxide | Nox | |||
MDMA | Opiates | Poppy flip | Poppy flipping | ||
MDMA | PCP | Elephant flip[22] | Elephant flipping | ||
MDMA | Psilocybin or psilocybin mushroom | Hippy flip, flower flip[23])[24] | Hippy flipping, flower flipping | ||
MDMA | Psilocybin or psilocybin mushroom | Cocaine | Flower flip on a string, hippie flip on a string | Flower flipping on a string, hippie flipping on a string | |
MDMA | Sildenafil | Sextasy (or hammerheading)[25] | |||
MDMA | DPH | Nightmare flip | Nightmare flipping | ||
PCP | Nicotine | Chipping | |||
Psilocybin | Any MAOI | Psilohuasca | |||
Xylazine | Fentanyl | Tranq, Tranq-dope, Sleep cut, Zombie | Often associated with medical complications and deaths, provides excessive sedation with little euphoria. | ||
DXM | DPH | Counter flip | Counter flipping | The synergy of this combo is considered to be unique in that it does not simply combine the effects, but creates a unique experience altogether see DXM & DPH |
2C-B + ketamine
DM Turner:
- "Taking Ketamine while on 2C-B has produced some absolutely spectacular experiences. I've used this combination some 30-40 times and have never failed to hit the mark." "Another important benefit of combining Ketamine with 2C-B is that recall of the experience is significantly increased. Visiting this realm of cosmic fun and knowledge but coming back with only the faintest recollection of what one's experienced can be frustrating, and leave one feeling that something is missing. Such was a common feeling with much of my early Ketamine experimentation. But since I began using Ketamine with 2C-B, I find I can now access my memory at any time, and recall in a fair amount of detail many exotic and fascinating experiences."[26]
- "One problem I find with Ketamine is that the experience is difficult to bring back and reintegrate with routine reality. Memory of the experience is even difficult. Within hours after coming back, 99% of the experience is inaccessible to my current conscious mind. The Ketamme experience is so bizarre and otherworldly that a normal mind can't even conceive of experiencing in this manner. It feels as though some part of the mind protectively closes off access to the dimensions experienced on Ketamine. I've recently found a method that is proving effective at solving this problem. This is to take Ketamine while already high on 2C-B. This seems to provide a "bridge" between the ego or identity, and a state that is ego-less and without limitations." "I've found Ketamine to combine best with 2C-B This produces an enhanced K journey as well as reducing the negative effects during the recovery period. Limited experimentation with some rare synthetic phenethylamines, including 2CT7, 2CT2, and DOB, have also produced good results. I find no enhancement of the K journey when combining it with ecstasy, however, this does reduce the discomfort of the recovery period. Combining K with LSD produces an enhanced K journey, however the recovery period can be a serious drag."[27]
2C-B + MDMA
2C-B combined with MDMA is known as nexus flipping or honey flipping.
Alexander Shulgin: "Many of the reports that have come in over the years have mentioned the combination of MDMA and 2C-B. The most successful reports have followed a program in which the two drugs are not used at the same time, nor even too closely spaced. It appears that the optimum time for the 2C-B is at, or just before, the final baseline recovery of the MDMA. It is as if the mental and emotional discoveries can be mobilized, and something done about them. This combination has several enthusiastic advocates in the psychotherapy world, and should be the basis of careful research when these materials become legal, and accepted by the medical community."[28]
Dangerous interactions

The combos in this section is used to list cut drugs, drugs used to incapacitate victims, or even kill people. Never use them!
See also
External links
- Poly drug use (Wikipedia)
- Erowid: Drug Slang & Terminology Vault
- Drug slang: what police must learn A to B - 3,000 slang words and phrases associated with illegal drugs
- Recreational Drug Wiki: Polydrug Terms
- Subreddit Drugs: DAE wonder what are the names of the different mdma flips?
References
- ↑ Shulgin Index, p811
- ↑ http://www.ecstasy.org/testing/pma.html
- ↑ "Speedballs often give stronger effects than either drug when taken alone due to drug synergy, and are a particularly hazardous mixture that can easily cause heart attack, respiratory arrest and death. When compared to single drugs, speedballs are more likely to lead to addiction, and users are more likely to relapse and also to overdose." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedball_(drug)
- ↑ "Polydrug Use Among Treatment Admissions: 1998." OAS Home: Alcohol, Tobacco & Drug Abuse and Mental Health Data from SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies. Web. 29 Sept. 2011. [1]
- ↑ Copping, Jasper (8 November 2009). "Drug slang: what police must learn A to B".
- ↑ "The Dangers of Dimenhydrinate Abuse". Bright Hub. Retrieved 2016-09-13.
- ↑ "Dramamine". Grasscity forums. Retrieved 2016-09-13.
- ↑ https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cocoa+puffs
- ↑ https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Frisco%20Special
- ↑ https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=space-basing
- ↑ https://erowid.org/psychoactives/slang/
- ↑ https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Nexus%20flip
- ↑ https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sparkle+flip
- ↑ https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sugar+flip
- ↑ https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Robo+Flipping
- ↑ https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gamma-flipping
- ↑ https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=kitty+flipping
- ↑ https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=candy%20flip
- ↑ https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jedi+flipping
- ↑ https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=twilight+flip
- ↑ https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=love%20flip
- ↑ https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Elephant%20Flipping
- ↑ https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Flower+Flipping
- ↑ http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hippy%20flipping
- ↑ https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sextacy
- ↑ "Erowid Online Books : "The Essential Psychedelic Guide" - Psychedelic Reality". erowid.org.
- ↑ "Erowid Online Books : "The Essential Psychedelic Guide" - Ketamine". erowid.org.
- ↑ http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal020.shtml