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So... since I'm back here (for now) and all...

Some people and I were exchanging crazy crackhead stories the other day. For some reason, the topic veered towards the (somewhat funny) fact that, when a crackhead is really cracked out, the hunt out anything that kinda looks like crack and smoke it.

You know what I'm talking about - they'll be searching the cracks in the sidewalk and, all of a sudden, they'll pick up something white that is totally not crack and smoke it, somehow thinking it's crack. We had not one, but two, stories about crackheads wandering into laundromats and smoking lint in their crack pipes.

Now, here's where the question comes in: I know that this is an actual psycological disorder, and there's a slang term for it but, for the life of me, I can't remember what either of them is, and it's killing me. So, I ask you, Obnerians:

What is the term describing when someone is so cracked out that they'll smoke anything even resembling crack? Any help would be appreciated...

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:59 am 
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c'est facile ca...

c'est un craqologue

or craqologiste

craquology

kraq

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Uhm....cracked out?


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drug induced psychosis?


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splates Wrote:
drug induced psychosis?


I know that one, but I think there's a specific term for it...

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Although it's been appropriated by crank/crystal/ice/pnp ampers... the term (which actually started with powder in the 70's and was retained through the transition through free-basing to cooking up rock to smoke) was... tweaking. As in, spoken to the young man who has been smoking crack for three days straight who refuses to get up off the kitchen floor picking up bread crumbs and inspecting them very carefully even though there are neighbors knocking on the door... "would you stop tweaking?"

"carpet crawlers", Genesis, 1976

The porcelain mannikin with shattered skin fears attack.
The eager pack lift up their pitchers- the carry all they
lack.
The liquid has congealed, which has seeped out through the
crack,
And the tickler takes his stickleback.
The carpet crawlers heed their callers:
"We've got to get in to get out
We've got to get in to get out."

I do hope this helps.

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"crack goggles"


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i remember the first time i encountered somebody smoking crack. was on the downtown 6 train, in the last car, with one other person. he busts out a pipe, starts hitting it, next thing i know, the whole train smells like...crack. ASScrack.
luckily those trains were the ones you could move from car to car on.

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"carpet crawlers", Genesis, 1976

(1974)

I have lived a sheltered life, apparently. I have never seen or even been around anyone on crack or even knowingly around anyone on anything stronger than pot.

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yeah, i've been with a fiend of mine when he was out of crack, and on the hunt, checking the floor, every table/countertop in site, and rummaging through drawers looking for crack and extra money.

"Carpet Crawler" is the term.


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The Mayor of Simpleton Wrote:
harry Wrote:
"carpet crawlers", Genesis, 1976

(1974)

I have lived a sheltered life, apparently. I have never seen or even been around anyone on crack or even knowingly around anyone on anything stronger than pot.


same here.


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This county has a disproportional amount of crackheads, considering how much geography and how little population are present.

Also, lots of kids like those gas-huffers in Love Liza


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I think the term he is looking for is Fiendin'

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I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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This county has a disproportional amount of crackheads, considering how much geography and how little population are present.

Maricopa County is like the meth-capital, so I'm assuming that I have been around a lot of methed-out mofos, but I can't confirm it without asking them, and I don't know that they'd respond very well to questions like, "Pardon my curiousity, but are you high on the meth?"

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