You don't frequent crack-houses. You don't shoot smack, drop acid, skin-pop speed or blow dope. You have nothing to do with the 1.8 billion tranquillisers prescribed in Britain every year, or with the two thousand tons of pain-killers purchased over the counter. You don't even smoke or drink. Okay, but the chances are still pretty high that you take drugs.

LRB 19 March 1987 | PDF Download