Strung-out nurses; the Demerol-syrup nurse and the first attempt to quit smoking

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texture · addiction era, B.S.

When: the Demerol years
What: Gately copped samples from various strung-out nurses/nursing-students, promoting small valuables from their apartments. One (Egede/Egette), in an Ipswich apartment, sold him Demerol-syrup samplers and could only climax if he burned her with a cigarette — which "marked the first time Gately seriously tried to quit smoking."