Cold, sitting on the side of a small warehouse in downtown Dallas where we often went to have our illegal parties, I felt myself floating away from my own body. Then with a flash of light and sudden warmth, I awoke to the next morning - sober, and lying in a gutter beside the building where the night before I had overdosed on a combination of illegal drugs that I had taken to escape the pain caused by the most recent breakup between a long time girlfriend...