Phil,
So You never had one of those bad trips etc.
Vinny
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 4:29 PM
Subject: Sail On Silver girl


> I sailed on silver girl once but instead of heroin, it was speed.  The
> silver part is a direct reference to the needle itself when I V drugs are
> used regardless of its type.  I was high for about 24 hours.  The rush
from
> the hit, the injection, was so powerful, I nearly passed out and was on
the
> edge of unconsciousness for probably 30 minutes and couldn't even move so
I
> laid on my back on a friend's basement floor.  Then, when the rush finally
> backed off a little, I felt physically the most powerful I have ever felt.
> I felt as if I could run for days, bend a steel bar between my teeth, and
I
> also felt as though my mental faculties had jumped off the I Q scale.  I
> only shot up that one time but from then on, I swallowed every
amphetamines
> capsule I could lay my hands on.  during my ninth LSD drip, I got stoned
on
> speed about 8 hours earlier that day.  Not a very good combination.  I
wrote
> about this last LSD drip in my online autobiography.  I'm fortunate to be
> alive today.  Most speed freaks back then, well, and even today, have
about
> a two year life span.  One day I swallowed the same type of speed I shot
up
> with a friend in his basement.  Well, I mixed it in pop, Coke I think it
> was, and it was horrible tasting.  It gave me almost a similar rush as the
> needle had months before.  There was one problem.  I had given up the
drugs
> and started living for the Lord again.  I had also just met Sandy.  It was
> days after my seventeenth birthday.  As soon as the speed hit my brain, a
> powerful conviction of sin rolled over me that was more powerful than the
> high.  I never did drugs again.  Besides, when Sandy found out, she
> threatened to leave me.  Of course, she was a drunk at the time but she
was
> older than me.  I'm just kidding, sort of, but there is a measure of truth
> to that last part.  She'll have to tell her own testimony.
>
> Phil.
>