When I first came back to America in the early 1990s I went to live in Tampa, Florida. I was, after a short while, on methadone. One day I waiting for the bus to go home with a friend of mine , also from NYC, who had also moved down there [so many people do, it is really like a reunion since the city is so small we all find each other]. Anyway...
As we are waiting up rolls a chubby old man on one of those scooters for the handicapped, the kind you see in airports, etc. He rolls up, my friend and I are talking drug nonsense, about "war stories/drug porn" and the old man instead of getting a disgusted face smiles and after a short while joins in. He wass not a user of illicit susbstances but he was on major substances. He seemed friendly and when he offered me his phone number I took it.
When I got home I told the girl I was living with and she offered that he was most likely hitting on me [and in fact he was but that is neither here nor there really]. She kept on me about going to see him, she had turned on shortly before and was scheming.
Finally I did call him and he invited me over. When I got there the next day he was shocked that I had a girl with me. Trying to play it off though, as he had one of his friends [maybe a lover? with him]. At the end I bid a friendly goodbye to him and as polite as I am, did not mention anything about psychoactive substances. However, he told me, "Wait! I have some stuff just lying around and if you would like, you could take it." I politely told him "ok" thinking maybe he would toss me a few T3s or some other worthless nonsense.
To my suprise he gave me 3 unopened boxes of Fentanyl patches anda pharm container of Valium [blues/10 mgs.].
I did try to work the patches but I was on a 100 mgs [max in Fl at the time, maybe still is] and could not feel them at all. I gave them away mostly. As for the 10s, the friend from NYC was one of the usual methadone addicts who looked for benzos to potentiate the boring grind of daily methadone. He offered to pay the going price [2 dollars per] and I made a couple of hundred dollars off of him]. I never followed up with the guy because I am not gay and did not feel right trying to hustle an old man by leading him on [as that was clearly his game].