when you frantically go through the disposed-sharps box for something "good" whilst in the ER for an overdose...
when every single american car you see makes you jump in your seat and feel dopesick....
when you get off the needle, and you are smoking crack and not shooting it, and it feels on the same safe, righteous level as smoking pot....
you might be a junkie if you have little bottles of bleach in every pair of pants...
you might be a junkie when you're in the shower tapping out your bottle of conditioner and out pops a syringe!
you know you're a junkie when you cop a bunny of dope and bang it all in one big fattie, and it doesn't even begin to offset the case of nerves you got from coppin in the hot spot-so you go back and get another =)
you might be a junkie if you go to the hospital for an abscess and tell them you "fell off your bike, and it really hurts!"
you might be a junkie if you shoot all your dope on the project steps before you peace, so that you won't have anything on you...
you talk shit on the kid who cold-cops in the hood-until everybody you know is dry, then call him and ask him if he wants to throw
you have a sharps container the size of a small garbage can, instead of a garbage can, in your bedroom
you might be a junkie if you have a shoebox full of white "just for today" NA keytags
you might be a junkie if when you don't have wallet, money, keys, cigs, dope, place to live-but always a bottle of narcan and a big old point on your person
you might be a junkie when you are getting undressed and there is a 100-mcg fentanyl patch in your bra that until 2 seconds ago was on your titty-and you had absolutely no idea.....
and finally....
You might be a junkie if you get pulled over right after coppin, swallow your dope, run from the police when they take you up to the project to point out who served you, have your bud pick you up from downtown which you sprinted 5 miles to with the fury of a dope sick lunatic, and cough up the bundle you swallowed and get high in the car.....