breathe

The thing about drug stories is you have to read them so quickly and continuously, you have to get to the climax and then the still point, the recovery. If you stop too long in the center when the drugs are doing big glorious things, you can so easily become a part of the character’s life, make it your own. Even if only a mental sense. And therefore drug stories release that adrenaline…. they make you a junkie of drug stories themselves, rather than the drugs they use in them.