( Cut for potentially triggering references to drug abuse )

The character is a healthy man in his late 20's who has smoked a pipe daily since he was about 12 - he comes from a place where this is normal and basically everyone smokes. During the story he travels to a distant land where tobacco is completely nonexistent. Obviously he's gonna have some withdrawl issues ( Read more... )

Do you need to know how much a hitman costs to hire, or how much a human trafficker makes, but are afraid to google is because the NSA probably won't take it kindly? Do you wonder what a kidney goes for these days? Or illegally shot elephant ivory? Or do you just want a comparison between what prostitutes earn in various countries?

Never fear, ( Read more... )

OK, I Googled "Is it safe to take narcotics after using cocaine?" and didn't get anything useful. (And now I'm probably being investigated by the FBI . . .) I know from previous searches that cocaine itself remains in your system for one to three days, but the chemicals your body makes in response to the cocaine remains in your blood for much ( Read more... )

I have three different scenarios in the one story, set in 1968.

I've tried googling a few things about drafting/enlistment in the Vietnam war, the history of cocaine in the 1960s, and the stigmas around self harm in the 1960s, and I've also looked through the tags on this forum but I haven't really found the answers I'm looking for.

The story is ( Read more... )

I don't know if this can be answered, but I want to get an idea about how it makes people feel to drink alcohol or smoke a cigarette. And I'd like to hear about a range of alcoholic beverages. I'm not looking for how people feel when drunk. I'm looking for the feeling from a glass or two. Since I can't use my own impressions, I don't want to ( Read more... )

Setting: PA, USA, 2006

Searched areas: Searched through little_details tags, ask_a_cop; Googled ‘underage DUI in PA’, ‘underage DUI in PA drugs’, ‘911 call drugs procedures’ ‘911 calls procedures drug overdose’ amongst so many others ( Read more... )

My current project is set in a slightly advanced Victorian era with steampunk technology. One of the main characters was a drug addict who had recently escaped from an asylum, and for that I needed a new drug. So I created lethe ( Read more... )

I have a few questions about a baby who would be born to an addicted mother (probably heroin and methamphetamine) that was born a couple of weeks early after the mother was beaten. The mother delivered the premie via c-section and later on died. How long would the child be in the NICU and what would be some of the things that may be affecting him ( Read more... )

The streets were full of junkies and homeless, and they all wanted something.
A compiled guide to methamphetamine use for writing purposes.I've covered a lot in this guide, but I've still missed things, I'm sure. If you have further questions or want to pose scenarios based on what you're writing, don't hesitate to ask in a comment. It's a ( Read more... )