Respectable society
tends to oversimplify drugs...
...dividing the world
into addicts and non-addicts.
It doesn't take into account
the many intermediate stages.
Like mine.
I've taken heroin
once a week for 24 years.
Only on Wednesday mornings
at ten o'clock sharp.
I have never, ever,
deviated from this rule.
I can't call myself an addict.
I can't say
I'm alien to drug problems.

Once a year I have
my blood cleaned thoroughly.
It's a costly procedure.
How long has
Nitto Lo Riccio been on the run?
25, 26 years.
I've never met the man
who procures my heroin.
I've spoken to him
on the phone only once.
His name is Ludovico.
I think it's an unsuitable name
for a pusher.