It notably mirrors accounts of opiate users: you have a great time at first, and then you have shit time but can't stop. Like in Velvet Underground's: “I have m

It notably mirrors accounts of opiate users: you have a great time at first, and then you have shit time but can't stop. Like in Velvet Underground's: “I have made the big decision―I'm gonna try to nullify my life.” IIRC even Burroughs wrote that he was mistaken in advocating or defending junk―even though he was saying it doesn't have negative effects on physique, when he was already pretty old.