“Opiates are especially manipulative, because you get outside of your consciousness. Fears you didn’t know you had, suddenly vanish. Though the experience of a drug is a romantic and nostalgic feeling, addiction is not. It’s ugly and selfish, because it is so bodily. It is both metaphorical and biological, it is hunger for emotion, and chemical alteration. It is almost impossible to explain to someone who has never done an opiate.”