Oh dear, a lot of what you describe goes beyond mere dickheadedism and into the realm of just dead shitty - especially the warfarin burn.
The dilemma, too, is that how can one fight back or assert themselves, given facts like -
- one's addiction (in which case even an untrustworthy person seems better than no person at all)
- the fact that dickhead dealers with delusions of grandeur may get a lot of their ideas of regarding their own personal "dangerousness" out of terrible movies or gangsta cliches ... But this silliness makes them MORE, not less, likely to be actually dangerous ....
Not all dealers are dicks of course. And every dealer I've ever met personally has had their own addiction issues. But peddling illicit, possibly hard-to-get and dependence forming substances really brings out an evil streak sometimes. For example, I've known of two (male) smack dealers who would insist on being paid in sexual favours rather than cash, with individuals they fancied.
Given the horrors of opiate withdrawal, combined with the singular unattractiveness of the men in question, this was just damn evil. But I am sure it happens all the time.
