The Dilaudid partnership: cooking up for Gately, and a love past sense

pivotal · Sorkin/addiction era (B.S.)

• When: across the crew years (~B.S.)
• What: Fackelmann was devoted to Dilaudid (hydromorphone, "Blues"), Gately to oral Percocets and Bam-Bams; the split let them trust each other's stashes completely. Because Gately feared needles and the Virus, Fackelmann would cook up for him, tie him off, and let him watch — using mint syringes obtained on a fake Medicaid Iletin (diabetes) I.D. (Iletin: purified pork insulin, the Lilly product the I.D. claimed a need for — n370). Fackelmann claimed to avoid oral narcotics because they gave him sugar-cravings his weight couldn't tolerate; Gately notes Dilaudid gave him the same cravings, "as did actually just about everything." "The plain truth was that Fackelmann just really liked Dilaudid" — the appetite that will kill him. (Gately-altitude: Gately's timeline (event 15), the Dilaudid crib-hallucination.)