Lately I've been thinking about heroin. Don't ask why. (Just in case you, reader, are the U.S. Government, let me repeat that I've only been thinking about heroin. I haven't done it or distributed it . . . yet). Anyway, this story "Heroin/e" is one of the best things I've ever read about the topic. It a true story about a woman who was addicted to heroin, but it's also about her mother's slow, painful death, which became painless toward the end because of morphine (In Case You Missed It, morphine and heroin are both opium derivatives). Was her mother a heroine, or did heroin keep her from feeling the pain of death? And by heroin, I mean morphine, since that's the legal stuff she was taking.
Anyway, I can't find the whole story online, though you can find a pretty good sample here. If you're interested in the whole story, you can probably find most of it at the google book Roar Softly , though some of the pages won't be there, unfortunately . . . (the library has the volume the short story is in, if you're really were interested)
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