It’s expensive to have a coke habit. Lots of dealers flaking on you and “Awww shiiat mang! I know a guy but it’s EXPENSIVE! Ya feel me?!”
Nick likely got hustled a few times and paid over price because “Yeah mang! Shit is TESTED and shiat!”
Every drug fiend gets ripped off. The desperation of any addict ensures they take what they can get many times. Nick wasn’t comparison shopping. He was driving all the way to Minneapolis to the one reliable dealer he knew and was at his mercy. Nick would have been a good customer but they would have certainly known they could price gouge him.
I know Nick is from the mean streets of Houston with NO white friends, but he wasn’t going to risk trips to black neighborhoods to sample the market or find new connections. He also had money to burn so didn’t need to sweat losing his last $200 on a bunk eightball.
I’d bet Nick started really spiraling once he met the hook-up from the guy he originally bought from. Little dude couldn’t get fronted the amounts Nick was constantly requesting and was probably annoyed Nick was driving up three or four times a week buying everything he could get his hands on. The supplier would be interested in a customer that was ready to pay a few thousand cash every time.
So Nick goes up the chain a notch. He gets handed off to his dealer’s supplier, or his front, someone who could supply a pound or quarter k at a time. The first guy was probably only selling grams or eight balls and Nick wanted more than that since he was driving all the way from Spicer.
It’s a pretty common scenario. Once Nick could get his hands on weight regularly, shit went downhill rapidly.
It was always a bit fucking peculiar. It sounds like a love song directed at someone who purports to be a married man with kids. Who the fuck would spend their time doing something like that?
I'd love to know what the guy who wrote it thinks about him now.
I knew dozens of people who used heroin for years without it ever becoming a significant problem. (Aside from them being heroin addicts, of course.) As soon as they started sucking the glass dick, they started to commit the kind of crimes that invariably end up in long prison sentences. Even the ones that don't go insane on crack are the most boring, self-centred, annoying fuckers you could ever have in your life.
Worst drug ever.
The problem with cocaine is its short duration and no real satisfaction point. Heroin addicts will at least nod out for hours before using again or try to limit their usage into dosages to avoid withdrawal.
Cocaine addicts can just keep using and using. Their appetite is insatiable and bottomless. If there is any satisfaction point for them it’s gone in minutes so they use more. I’d say the only way it could get worse is if they start smoking or shooting it.
Nick is a little different from a typical coke head because he is an alcoholic, which makes it way worse in many ways. Most coke addicts depend on benzos so they can come down or sleep after a binge, but maybe Nick avoided that by drinking so much. After 30 minutes cessation of coke he’d just pass out from ridiculous amount of alcohol he’d been consuming. The cocaine would have kept him up and talking in black out drunk mode for hours - as the anime sneed stream demonstrated so vividly. I’m sure Nick has almost zero recall of that night past 10 pm.
