the vicious circle starting at twelve
Some of the more marginal players start in as early as maybe twelve, I’m sorry to say, particularly ’drines before matches and then enkephaline after, which can generate a whole vicious circle of individual neurochemistry
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The campus's chemical management named as a closed loop and dated early: stimulants before matches, opioids after, the swing generating its own next dose. "A whole vicious circle of individual neurochemistry" is the clinical shape of the thing, and the players enter it at twelve.