the argot of ingesting and recovering
The way Pemulis and Troeltsch and Struck and Axford ingest substances and recover from substances and have a whole jargony argot based around various substances gives Schacht the creeps, a bit
Context
The census named as a subculture: a cohort organized around ingesting and recovering, fluent in its own argot, Troeltsch "sick so often from the physical stress of constant 'drines" — a working economy of use running under the athletic surface, catalogued from the vantage of the one boy who has quietly stepped outside it.