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Pete On Heroin



     Here's an excerpt from a Jim Sullivan article on the growing use of =

     heroin among rock and movie stars in the Boston Globe:
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           Pete Townshend of the Who, sipping tea in a New York hotel roo=
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     in 1985, drew this metaphor about his drug use, the past and the
     future: "I've been living in a garbage can all my life, so I
     remain living in a garbage can. I know a lot of it is going to rub
     off on me and touch me, but it just isn't going in my mouth
     anymore."=B7
        Townshend's abyss? End of 1981. "I reduced myself to a
     gibbering heap of rubble and then woke up one night in some venue
     with a couple of bottles of brandy, (having) injected myself with
     whatever was available. I was literally just about breathing,
     covered in blood and warts and slime and phlegm and vomit and
     still I was surrounded by people who wanted to get close to
     me."=B7