A New World....
Once you've entered into the world of opiates, you begin to notice details of your surroundings that you were previously oblivious. I live in a medium sized city in the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast, and in a more "urban" environment like my own, it is easy to notice the discarded evidence of this world's inhabitants. On any given day, I can easily spot multiple discarded heroin bags upon the sidewalk, torn open Suboxone sublingual strip wrappers, and at the very least, the brightly colored orange caps from disposable syringes, if not the whole "rig" itself. Prior to my baptism into this alternate world, the detritus of such drug use would have been as invisible to me as the homeless man laying on the sidewalk to bourgeois city dwellers. How, exactly, did I gain admission to this world you may ask? Well, it truly was a combination of several important personal and environmental factors that came together at just the right moment in a serendipitous way I refe...
