Prescription Pills

(unfortunately , it wasn't possible to maintain consistency and some
drugs appear under their generic names and others under brand
names)

Andy takes Acamprosate, his first taste of alcohol in a bust-up
playground when he was twelve, stopped him from caring about the
dogshit and scattered broken glass. Then the addiction gene kicked him
hard in the jawline, fracturing. Despite the taste of vodka on a Sunday
afternoon, he botched his way through a joint honours in mathematics
and physics and man could he make the numbers dance. But right now he's
desperately failing to cut down on the ethanol, the love-juice of
fools.

Brian takes Barbiturates, whatever downers are going for sale at
Peanut's flat. Peanut's girlfriend died last year from an OD on sodium
pentathol, but him and Brian are too screwed up to fight the blue
devils. They sweat and chill and crawl and steal and God knows
sometimes even work their way through life. Sometimes Peanut gets
delirious and the first time it happened Brian got really scared,
paranoid. He called an ambulance but when they arrived he was too
fucked to let them in. By the time they broke the door down and found
him asleep in a chair covered in his own puke, Peanut had stopped
breathing.

Callum takes Clozapine because of the king. He's from another world you
know and bears important news. One day Callum hopes his mission will be
over and he can go back to college, then get a career.
It's a real burden - having to be a messenger and his star spangled
universe is far away from the white walls and cheap brown leather
chairs of the psychiatric department at the "Royal Free". But its
totally real you know. Or rather you don't know because you just can't
run fast enough to see what he can see so you label it delusion.

Mikee's on Methadone, he's a messed up junkie bad man. Skinny, ugly,
spotty and yellow and still at twenty-six a closet virgin. Funny thing
is he's more into the methadone than he was into the smack. His mate
Luigi was the real brown fiend and everyone blames him for getting
little Mikee hooked. Luigi reckons he's the mafia but he only deals
smalltime and his mama still makes him go to mass on Christmas morning
no matter how bad he feels.

Peter takes Prozac, prescribed by an overworked GP in Petersfield who's
screwing his secretary who doesn't know she caught HIV from a drunken
shag in Portugal last year. And Pete catches the same train every day
and wonders where the boundery is, you know, the edge of his town

Rita takes ritalin, originally prescribed for her baby boy who only
ever saw his daddy through myopic newborn eyes and doesn't have ADD but
cries and screams because he's a little piece of underclassity.

Tessa takes temazepan, whatever tranks she can lay her flaky hands on.
Bullied at school, and sheathed in eczma she's a sight for poor sore
eyes. In Wales they call them wobbly eggs or sometimes jellies and this
Talbot tart resides in a wobbly world away from worries, weary and
wasted, doing the dirty on the dole.

Vanessa takes valium but she's such a wannabe sedated to the eyes.
She's the selfish spawn of a middle-class suburb and buys her drugs
with the money she got from selling her Mummy's house. Not that Mummy
cares much, as she's pissing herself in the nursing home staring
blankly straight through the television screen

(Unfinished)