Dead Beat
Dead Beat
““I don’t know how much you know about heroin addiction,” Maggie replied.
“Lay person’s knowledge only. Assume I’m ignorant.”
“OK. Coming off is hell. But once an addict is off, they often get a strange kind of confidence that one little hit wouldn’t do any harm. Like the smoker who’s been stopped for three years and fancies a fag at a party. Only with heroin addicts, that can be fatal a lot faster than with smokers. Anyway, someone at Colcutt Manor kept leaving a set of works in Moira’s room. E...very couple of days, she’d come upstairs to find a nice little hit sitting there waiting for her.” Maggie stopped dead, her anger making her voice a growl.
“That is evil,” I breathed.
“So now you see why I wanted her to leave. So far, she’d just flushed the smack down the loo and shoved the syringes in the bin. But sooner or later there was going to come a time when she’d be low, when she couldn’t ring me up for reassurance, when she was going to go for it. I couldn’t stand the thought of it.”MoreLess
“Lay person’s knowledge only. Assume I’m ignorant.”
“OK. Coming off is hell. But once an addict is off, they often get a strange kind of confidence that one little hit wouldn’t do any harm. Like the smoker who’s been stopped for three years and fancies a fag at a party. Only with heroin addicts, that can be fatal a lot faster than with smokers. Anyway, someone at Colcutt Manor kept leaving a set of works in Moira’s room. E...very couple of days, she’d come upstairs to find a nice little hit sitting there waiting for her.” Maggie stopped dead, her anger making her voice a growl.
“That is evil,” I breathed.
“So now you see why I wanted her to leave. So far, she’d just flushed the smack down the loo and shoved the syringes in the bin. But sooner or later there was going to come a time when she’d be low, when she couldn’t ring me up for reassurance, when she was going to go for it. I couldn’t stand the thought of it.”MoreLess
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