no Deficit in his attention to pharmacology
there was no Deficit in his attention to ball, or to cold foamers or screwdrivers or high-resin desBois, or especially to applied pharmacology, not once he'd done his first Quaalude at age thirteen.
Context
The Special-Ed "attention deficit" turned inside out: the one classified as unable to attend gives total, undeficient attention to the two things that will run his life — football and, once it starts at thirteen, the substances. The same faculty the schools can't find in him for Language Arts is fully operational for "applied pharmacology," which is the addict's signature — not an absence of discipline but its complete misallocation.