"Expert or no, that was very thorough," he said, having hung onto every word. He didn't have a pen or his planner to take notes (they must be on his desk back home) so he was careful to commit every word to memory.

"Why would people ingest something that causes-" he stopped himself mid-sentence, and shook his head. "No, I shouldn't ask that." People in Jerusalem's Lot imbibed all manner of harmful substances for reasons that were beyond counting. "Are they chasing a high? Or does it cause other effects?"