I had still never tried heroin. I know this sounds crazy considering I’d been shooting up cocaine and meth like a fucking lunatic, but heroin scared me. Smack acolytes had been effectively vilified in my psyche by movies and books. I had some ridiculous theory that cocaine left your system quickly and wasn’t so bad for you. I could spike up coke all night long until my arm was a bruised and swollen mess and I’d become a shivering psycho, but the idea of doing one shot of heroin and mellowing out terrified me.
