LIST 11

82 Brands of Heroin

Brand loyalty isn't just for soap and cigarettes. Heroin dealers often create their own “brand,” signified by a name and/or logo. If a user likes a particular high, this “mark of quality” keeps them coming back for more of the same kind of skag. Some brands last for years; some are around literally for a single day. The National Drug Intelligence Center reported on a “cutting mill” found in New York: “On the walls of the apartment charts displayed several brand names of heroin along with different formulas for cutting each brand.”

1. america on-line

2. bart simpson

3. big doodig

4. big mac

5. bin laden

6. black angel

7. body bag

8. bone collector

9. chevrolet

10. cold water

11. colt 45

12. dead on arrival

13. dead president

14. dead.com

15. death certificate

16. devil's advocate

17. diesel

18. DMX

19. Double UOGlobe
(a/k/a Double Globe)

Created in the refinery of America's “ally” General Ouane Rattikone of Laos, this was the favorite brand among American GIs during the Vietnam War.

20. doo-wop

21. fatal

22. fingers

23. G-money

24. Godzilla

25. godfather

26. holy terror

27. holyfield

28. homicide

29. I'll be back

30. jerry springer

31. john hinkley

32. kembra

Named after rock ‘n’ roll performance artist Kembra Pfahler.

33. lexus

34. life

35. life after death

36. lucifer

37. m & m

38. maggie 2

39. magnum 357

40. mercedes

41. mike tyson

42. millennium 2000

43. monica lewinski

44. motorola

45. movada

46. murder one

47. nautica

48. new york

49. nike

50. octopus

51. old navy

52. one and done

53. opium

54. pacman

55. painkiller

56. playboy

57. plymouth

58. poison

59. purple haze

60. red rum

Reportedly, this was the brand that killed Smashing Pumpkins' touring keyboardist Jonathan Melvion in July 1996.

61. Shark

62. skull and crossbones

63. son of sam

64. suicide

65. super AT&T

66. super buick

67. timberland

68. tommy hilfiger

69. toombstone [sic]

70. toyota

71. Tres pesos

72. UPS

73. USA

74. white house

75. WTC

76. 7up

77. 747

78. 777

79. 8-ball

80. 9/11 world trade center

81. 911

82. $