The drinking career: red wine, Quaaludes, and years of blackout

texture · UNDATED (spanning to ~YDAU)

• When: UNDATED (chronic drinking spanning "most of the last several years" up to the late-Oct YDAU bottom)
• What: Day is "a red-wine-and-Quaalude man"; his Intake estimated he had "been in and out of a blackout for most of the last several years," his "wiring is still as they say a bit frayed." He characterizes his own use, defensively, as a mere "problem with mild sedatives and fine Chianti," and complains of "formication" in detox (the sensation of crawling insects). His paranoid "Box-surveillance" conviction — that a conspiracy team is following him by walking ahead of him — is, per Pat and Gately, a bad kind of D.T.s (cf. events 8, 9, 10).