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“ The first time I took a Xanax was to get some sleep after about an eight ball of cocaine. It worked. I slept for 13 hours and didn’t even know I missed a terrible hangover. It was like cheating death. Then I was stressed out about being late for work so I took another half to get through the day. Unfortunately, now I can’t get to sleep without at least a half pill. If I talk to people without it I’m so socially awkward they can’t even look at my eyes. I guess I’m in it to win it now.”
—Rachel Christopher, 29
“ I got into snorting heroin at university and seemed to have a pretty good grasp on it for the first five years of my habit. Then I noticed I was spending way too much cash on dope and decided to switch to needles. I remember thinking I was really smart and had tricked the system or something. Of course, along with the needles came a higher dosage. Eventually I just had to move to L.A. to get away from it. I had some friends smuggle some shit over on a plane last month, but besides that one fuck up I’ve done pretty good.”
—Devin Stays, 32
SOLPADEINE
“The first time I ever had these was after a really bad booze and cocaine evening where we ended up doing lines and lines of base speed because we ran out of coke. At the end of the night I ended up being chased through King’s Cross by these two prostitutes who threw yoghurt on my coat and when I got home (to my girlfriend) I hallucinated a mouse. The next day was fucking witches and toads fear so I took six of these at once, thinking the high codeine content would kill all the fear and pain. WRONG! There’s also tonnes of caffeine in here, so I got this feeling of near-heroin-puking plus insane rushes of energy. It was horrible. Now I’ve learned how to take these properly (three or four at once) and I can’t do a big hangover day without them. They give you little envelopes of joy, some energy and they manage to take most of the pain away and, if you really get into them everything moves fast and sort of sparkles.”
—Jeff Something, 28
COCAINE
“Last year I bought 40 grammes the day before we threw a huge party. I promised myself we wouldn’t touch the bags before the party, but we did and four of us snorted and smoked about 20 grammes in seven hours while drinking red wine and neat gin out of a bottle so our hearts wouldn’t explode. I ended up in my office alone with the intern at 7.50 a.m. feeding her line after line in a vain attempt to fuck her but she wouldn’t have any of it. I remember she had all this snot and blood coming out of her face and she fixed me with this beautiful smile and she said something like: “D’y know what? I don’t think I’m EVER going to have to go to sleep again! I really mean it!” She was totally serious. Experiences like this were happening all the time so I gave up cocaine for good, probably.”
—James Best, 26
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“Liquid acid was so amazing we used to do it every day for a year. We thought it ‘controllable digital bliss’ and everything was OK and handle-able until one night a friend had a baaaad trip and so I left it for a while, putting it ‘safely aside’ in my top drawer at work. I kind of forgot about it but for the next four or five months I felt like I was tripping every day and, as a result, started having psychotic episodes with knives and broken glass and bursting into tears and flashbacks and such overwhelming depression and fear that I started getting into opium and smack to dull the mental breakdowns (good excuse eh?). One day I looked for the bottle of liquid acid in my drawer only to find it 9/10s empty. It had been leaking onto all my papers, pens and all my shit for seven months and I’d been tripping every daWe keep losing the names and addresses of the people who send us these, so stick the info to the back of the Tidbit or something.
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