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1 " For most long-term users, a substantial part of the high usually precedes the intake and uptake of drugs. Setting up the deal or, better, having the drugs in one’s possession, produces a high sometimes more substantial than that produced by the substances themselves. Watching junkies set up a score is to witness a shift in behaviour and temperament much more obviously euphoric than what appears to come over them after they inject. "
― Chris Fleming , On Drugs
2 " Reverie allows us to imagine other possibilities than those which lie immediately before us, other worlds than those we inhabit. "
3 " Addiction is reliable; dealers rarely are. "
4 " I now think that it was in my honours year that drugs and I got very tight, became best friends, pledged allegiance to one another. "
5 " As far back as I can remember, I’ve had a strong sense of being permeable, porous, of my body being open to the unpredictable forces of outside matter – of seeing myself and my actions in terms of what I’ve swallowed or been immersed in, what I’ve touched or been touched by, what I’ve injected, ingested or inhaled. "
6 " The structure soon became clear: cocaine was for people who’d succeeded, whose principal tool of drug delivery was the rolled bill; pot was for Gen X slackers who wanted to ‘chill’ or musos who wanted to be ‘creative’; and speed was for losers, for junkies who couldn’t get heroin, or else for miscellaneous ex-crims with facial tattoos who now did long-haul trucking. "
