Behavior: Pop Drugs: The High as a Way of Life

You raise up your head

And you ask, Is this where it is?

And somebody points to you

And says, It's his,

And you say, What's mine?

And somebody else says, Well, what is?,

And you say, Oh, my God,

Am I here all alone?

But something is happening

And you don't know what it is,

Do you, Mr. Jones?

—Bob Dylan, Ballad of a Thin Man

HE does not. The straight middle-class American breadwinner, secure and affluent beyond the dreams of his grandparents or most of his contemporaries elsewhere...

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