" A Snow Joint. Might have known he'd be running a dive for hop-heads too.'
This joint catered to Disease Collectors, the most hopeless of neurotic-addicts. They lay in their hospital beds, suffering mildly from illegally induced para-measles, para-flu, para-malaria; devotedly attended by nurses in starched white uniforms, and avidly enjoying their illegal illness and the attention it brought. "

― Alfred Bester , The Stars My Destination