Tell you what Miles. Instead of drinking some pints on the weekend, why don't you start shooting heroin and tell us how much more socially acceptable you feel in a few months. How easy it is to avoid the stuff during weekdays, how much more your wife appreciates you, and so on. No offence man, but I suspect if you had ever tried the stuff, or were close to a single person addicted to it, you wouldn't dream of spouting that fucking nonsense. Burroughs is a man who shot his wife in the head while trying to merely shoot something right on top of her head. Perhaps his judgement isn't a terrific benchmark to go by.

Saying alcohol and nicotine kill more people than heroin is like saying cows kill more people than sharks. It's completely true, yet so hopelessly besides the point.