And to focus the project.
Since time began in symbolic step out of the slime
and darkness it comes to inflict its life destroying poison on the careless the
unwary the unprotected no sane person would deliberately expose to expel
no intelligent person would venture within striking distance of its fangs.
Yet today. Young people are floating with the poison every bit as deadly as
that of the snake.
One of the potentials for illegal drug trafficking is the school here the
connection can be found with these peddlers of misery who prey on the unwary the
uninformed the curious the thrill seeking most young people will continue to live
as normal responsible citizens others chanted the unguided
the seekers of thrills
and kicks are candidates for the slave world of lifelong drug addicts.
But no one has a new how does it happen. Where does it stop.
One of the side the pattern is generally the same take a life of responsibility the
inability to make right choices. Add to it.
Ignorance and indifference and top it off with a desire for a scape ism
and kicks the sum total is then conceivably found in the bennies the reaper apart
need to take John Scott's he'd be the first to laugh at the thought of his being
the last exam he knew then is to have him up
but everybody knows a couple can't do any harm but he should have known is
that not only are barbiturates dangerous to his nervous system
but they destroy the inner resources he has now to overcome the obstacles of daily
life but he's too busy with his girl his car is sports.
The little problems he has don't seem to important.
He knows he's failing in English and on the borderline in there
but he's not really worried he knows he'll be OK on the next exam sure he'd be
willing to come for extra instruction on Saturday
but found it is his practice day is doing well in track
and he feels he will do better with more training
and practice he might even get to represent the school in the state final
but word has come down that it's great to see both an up.
He can be property a normal enough problem solution.
Get the box a little harder get a little help.
And I mean giving up some fun on weekends. But he knows he can do it if necessary.
He can cram a few days before the exam
and even pep himself up on bennies he handled them before
and he knows where to draw the line.
He knows he'll never go beyond that step
but someone else knows John has taken his first step toward someone who is willing
to help him take the second and that's where eventually it becomes a member of
that tight society of drug addicts to Jannah seems perfectly natural
and innocent to bump into an old classmate he hasn't seen Pete since he dropped out
of school last year from the looks of him he seems to be doing well on his out of
town selling job.
What John doesn't know is the selling job is pushing dough
and the long absence from town there accidental meeting calls for a little
celebration and Pete has just the thing.
There's a little private party going on tonight. Plenty of fun and laughs.
Take a break. It sounds good but today it is Father's Day Off
and John needs his help with some school problems if there's another party sometime
maybe he can make it there but he isn't interested in some time or maybe Square.
If you want to swing column right now he's got to split.
He's got to find fish ready to be hooked victims to supply him with money for the
heroin he needs today and tomorrow and tomorrow.
Compared to Pete's problems Johns
and nothing for grades expulsion from the team the frustrations
and responsibilities of growing up team. Important only to himself.
All he needs is a little help a little guidance a little understanding.
But the help the guidance the understanding are not there when he needs it.
His parents are away just
when he was counting on them to be home his problems must wait. But tomorrow.
He can solve them tonight.
Only he can go just so far alone during his childhood he was loved helped protect a
sudden rain that's gone now he's in a man's body he's expected to be a man to stand
alone on his own two feet. This. He will gladly do but he needs a little push.
He needs someone to help him over the hump of school work.
That's troubling him today he's had it.
The studies can wait until tomorrow.
He knows he can finish and then what he doesn't know is behavior
and habits formed long ago now taking over the practice of putting things off
making excuses checking unpleasant time is strongly.
It's Saturday night and everyone else is out having fun.
It's the best excuse in the world to join the party.
Come.
To the stage is set the principle players are in
real life in a real life
version of. Dance the excitement of hell
and several beers taken effect inhibition and caution are forgotten
when Helen suggests they have a few more beers he's all for why not everyone else
is doing to refuse would be square and
that terrible level must be avoided at all costs.
Besides he's never been high on it before any never will he can handle the stuff.
The only trouble is he can't handle so much under the influence of the Helen comes
through is much more friendly.
He's flattered by her attentions
and her interest in him if he could see her arms scarred by the needle marks.
She would know she's a height.
He can see her police record he would know she works for people.
Helen know their parts well they've been through it before
and they know the time right. The sucker bait.
It's time for the next step the next step
is the garage.
They're some of the gang are really blasting that's where the real action is come
on. And take a look. Take a trip from the squares pale blue a little
and see what it's like for yourself. The senses a doubt.
Just enough to be reckless the music the beer the promise of excitement pressing on
and now Curiosity has to be satisfied enough.
It can't do any harm to
this is the real action the pot party the trippers the grasshoppers the hip ones
all gathered in say.
Chrissie
and flying high as a kite outside the boundaries of their phony world of kicks is
the ever present possibility of discovery.
This must be avoided at all costs for discovery brings with it.
The penalties of society shame.
Arrest prison so destroy the evidence leave not a trace burn it in paper trash
that way they can deny possessing the illegal marijuana.
They can say the flaming can is part of a game they can lie they can swear this
time the gangs lucky. It's not the law or discovery or problems.
It's just the supplier.
Pete with his number one check and a new guy looking for kicks I get it.
Man and get with the countdown shake this square world and blast off for kicks.
Vale.
To John his first part party looks exciting. Everyone seems to be having fun.
Best of all there are no parents no other adults. No one to interfere with the fun.
The feeling of importance. I'm longing of putting one over and is taking hold.
Pete intends to tighten
that how to squeeze it to hook it to lock it in now's the time to introduce the
joints
but Pete has learned the rules well a pusher can never be caught with the stuff on
and instead he must leave it stank to get it from up front
this is the test the time to separate the man from the boy John's will power
individuality character slipping down the drain in their place come the old
behavior habits and excuses.
Everybody else is doing it if he can handle bennies and beer.
He should be able to handle a few harmless puffs just to see what it's like the
natural defense. It is a crime of the barriers of caution beaten down drag it man.
Try anything once try you can get a habit from we quit whenever you like
or be checkin
for
or come
on man.
One of the planning for the gang effects of the atmosphere and beer.
He chooses to go along.
John surrenders his dignity
and lays his future on the chopping block not whether it's girls are bad right.
But if he stopped to think he would see the stupidity of it all now he's too
involved having
his own way
and flying
but everything that goes up must come down
when John came down he landed with a thud due to the attacks of the alcohol in the
late hours at the party. The following day he was too tired too sick to study.
Now facing another school day he finds the same problems.
The same responsibilities are still with him as well as arguments.
Traffic violations.
And as the days go by he looks for more kicks in.
Or escape from the troubles he brings on himself.
Each time he feels the need for kicks. Or he's troubled he returns to marijuana.
He knows that marijuana isn't physically addicting.
He doesn't know he's become psychologically dependent on it
but he's not worried he knows he can handle it in time the continued use of
marijuana causes psychic and physiological changes in his body.
By under the influence of marijuana his blood pressure increases is unusual hunger
and his central nervous system changed his perception of depth
and dimensions is radically change the local appears oppressive.
With a distortion of sights
and sounds time is suspended fast action appears slow the whole world
when the big blow comes angry resentful humiliated sinking into the pit of despair
families help people and stuff but when it is in the city
or even the break.
The teacher has already failed him so I keep on the study his parents they don't
understand anything religion
but a laugh lad would get together those resources
and others are available to him
but he thinks only a power can help the square we're helping to get
everything and everybody.
He's been dragging the lead now long enough to want to try a bigger kick in his
present frame of mind the bigger the better psychologically he's ready to make the
big C. His pals of introduced new props
and he's anxious to examine fashion intelligence
normal defenses go up and not smoke.
Hank is a real high mainline
or beyond hope he's long past getting into kicks for marijuana His body is
conditioned to heroin is one of the most powerful dangerous drugs known to man so
dangerous
that importation even for medical uses has been banned in the United States since
nine hundred twenty five every day the cost of his habit rises eighty dollars
ninety dollars one hundred dollars a day
and more every day he must have increasing amounts of the drug to get it he will
lie steal murder even trap the innocent
that he uses is the drug addicts only friends with it.
He can exist in his living hell until the next fix.
Without it he will suffer the unbearable tortures of withdrawal from the drugs to
prepare the venom for his bloodstream empties heroin under the spoon.
Every grain is precious and cannot be spilled
or wasted a
few drops of water added to make it so you
bend a small lot of cotton usually a directory is placed on the spoon to serve as a
filter so usually is then drawn through the cotton filter
and into the needle this cotton is saved and used again
and again
or if the addict is ever caught without the drug it can cook the cartons
and squeeze out a small amount.
This is it then the big time the mainline The high point of every drug addict
sister of every thousand hypes who ride the toboggan to hell.
Quickly
protections are
to stop with such things
ready for joining
us to see what it's really the only thing
may be getting a little.
Quips.
The agony will reach its peak in thirty six to seventy two hours
and then continue for two more weeks in the meantime he must obey
the rules of the drug addict world of secrecy
or his screams of pain can bring discovering the worst of all they can bring the
long and forcible denial of the hell drug addicts must have. So cool.
It cut it strangle it in the jungle land of not comics. It's Fight Club.
Kill. And every man for himself.
But demons of withdrawal pains have increased torture by running rampant through
his body and prepared to multiply themselves hundreds of times again.
Ironically the only relief from his demons is through the very poison
that originally hooked him the same heroin
that will bind him ever more tightly to his living hell.
But the blessid temporary delivery is not given through any noble charitable motive.
It's just a final step in Pete's carefully laid plan.
He's made another junkie
and another source of money now with the hook in a twist to make sure
the victim will never get away.
Now that John has experienced a heart of withdrawal.
He will make sure he gets his junk every day his power.
Pete will be glad to sublime. But only for money.
Plenty of money for in the vicious racket the preys on human misery.
There is no trust no credit. No mercy.
It's cash on the line
but they are in battle agony of withdrawal.
How to get the money presents tremendous problems. To secure this money.
John must now do things he would never dream of doing before he was her
first to sell his wristwatch.
That is high fire today at his mother's best server where.
He's pressed for more and more money to support his habit.
John must preserve appearances every day he must go through the motions the
pretense of living a normal life. Now one must ever know he's a hopeless junkie.
But the law enforcement officers ever alert to the deadly drug traffic are about to
know. The swinger the hip check
or the gang has been picked up for shoplifting in a downtown store
or previous arrest for shoplifting
and prostitution action to narcotics heavily against the shame the stigma
the prison sentence she faces now.
Problem is getting another fix to hold up the terrible withdraw
in police custody. She knows that sex is impossible.
So she will settle for the next best thing and cooperate with the law.
She will sell the gang friends.
So the help she needs to face the coming withdrawal torch
swiftly acting on her ladles of the law strike back
and another tentacle of the drug is cut off.
But the infected victims
but the police record to harm them as long as John uses the leniency of the law.
Sometimes allowed.
First he enters a government hospital with the very best treatment modern science
can give.
The agony of all the treatment behind
kick the habit. They can try to pick up the pieces.
I wonder if out of prison doing harm to stop by
and just say hello.