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Four Friends From Rehab and the Heroin Intellectual
from Subsistence Hustlers · #21
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4 minTim recalls his four rehab bunkmates, including a kid named Steve who insisted heroin had no downsides besides addiction, and compares drug experts to fat people who obsess over nutrition science.
- 9:26Tim describes meeting four bunkmates in rehab, including a Portuguese guy detoxing from alcohol.
- 9:49Steve, an intellectual kid in rehab, argued that heroin has no physical downsides besides addiction.
- 10:25Tim acknowledges Steve's argument seemed solid on the surface, just claiming addiction was the only problem.
- 10:40People in drug circles who research substances obsessively are like fat people obsessing over food science and enzymes.
- 11:33Of the four rehab friends, one named Alex from Brookville is dead now.
- 11:44Ricky, another friend from rehab, cycles through relapses and recovery posts on Facebook.
- 12:25Tim tracks Ricky's Facebook pattern: spiritual ocean photos followed by increasingly dark song lyric posts.
- 13:00Ricky's latest status quotes lyrics about refusing to exist and living limitless, signaling another relapse spiral.