At least you're there to watch him chinky. That would be some messed up sh** if he was alone.
I remember the first real dope dealer (the supplier) I met thru friends in Detroit and got high with...he carried a drool rag, which I didn't understand till he shot up, would make up bags and nod.....and drool. So he'd wake up, wipe up the drool, make up bags, nod out...repeat. He would wave his pistol around as a joke too, except a nodding drooling loaded pistol waving fool wasn't so funny....
Anyone here remember the plastic McDonald's coffee spoons? That was the measure. He had saved em, taped and glued em together to keep using them...this was back in the early 90s. I have no idea when McD's stopped making the spoons.