The Dilaudid binge — "They ran out of the distilled…"
They ran out of the distilled water Fackelmann had in the mixing bowl, and Fackelmann took a cotton and sopped up candy-dyed urine off the floor and cooked up with urine.
Context
The Gately–Fackelmann binge at its nadir. The body's expelled Dilaudid comes back up off the floor and into the needle: waste-into-fuel, executed literally, at the scale of one human being. The Concavity's entire economy, running in a single apartment.