The man “rips you off the drugs” ... I suppose I was “on drugs” so being ripped off them as if it were a physical object would makes sense. No matter what I tr

The man “rips you off the drugs” ... I suppose I was “on drugs” so being ripped off them as if it were a physical object would makes sense. No matter what I tried, the story just kept plodding along without taking much of my input into account. How is it supposed to work?