as well as arguments traffic violations and as the days go by he looks for more kicks more escape from the troubles he brings on himself each time he feels the need for kicks or he 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 while under the influence of marijuana his blood pressure increases as unusual hunger and his central nervous system changes his perception give those resources and others are available to him but he thinks only a power can help help where we're helping forget 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 scene his pals of introduced new props  examine the intelligence normal defenses go up in smoke tankers are real high hopes mainline are beyond hope he is long past getting into kicks for marijuana his body is conditioned to heroin one of the most powerful dangerous drugs known to man so dangerous that it's importation even for medical uses has been banned in the united states since nine twenty five every day the cost of his habit rises eighty dollars ninety dollars or 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 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 drug so prepare the venom for his bloodstream the empties heroin on to the spoon every grain is precious and cannot be spilled or wasted a few drops of water are added to make it so you 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 drug is psychologically ready for stronger drugs to his confused brain the idea of joining hank in a bigger kick is highly intact it would be all right to try it just uncontrollable convulsion the agony will reach its peak in thirty six to seventy two hours then continue for two more weeks in the meantime he must obey the rules of the drug addict world in the jungle land of not comics it's fight club kill and every man for himself but demons of withdrawal pains have increased the torture they run 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 motives 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 deep he twists it to make sure the victim will never get away for in the vicious racket the preys on human misery there is no trust no credit no mercy it's cash on the line by the unbearable agony of withdraw 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 hooked although always pressed for more and more money to support his habit john must preserve outward 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 is getting another fix to hold up the terrible withdraw in police custody she knows the fix is impossible so she will settle for the next best thing and cooperate with the law but the infected victims still go off with a police record to harm him as long as john uses the leniency of the law sometimes allowed first offenders so he enters a government hospital for the very best treatment modern science can  give months later the agony of withdrawal the care the treatments are behind that he's kicked the habit he can try to pick up the pieces of his broken l i wonder if he grew out of prison do any harm to stop by and just say hello