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by Aaron Anderson
 Let Tobey Drive
"Ya know what LTD stands for?" he would always ask someone before entering his car, a 1980 triple blue Ford LTD.
"Let Tobey Drive," would crawl out of his smile, as he entered his car. Tobey would start the ignition and we would be off.
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Edgar Allen Poe Continued
 None of them were morphine addicts. Many people who undergo the travails, tragedies, and disadvantages that Edgar Allan Poe are neither morphine addicts nor manic depressives. Yet there can be no question that in the tempest of racing thoughts and the maelstrom of mania's counterpart, depression, that morphine does, on a temporary basis, lessen some of the effects of the bipolar condition.
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Two white boys born and raised in the city of Detroit searching for whatever would make us feel alright, even if for only a short time.
Personally, at this point in my life I was more into the up than my partner Tobey, who loved his heroin. We would do whatever drugs either of us located,scored seperately, or together. We were using buddies and best friends.
He was the... » »
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In a manic flight, with the central nervous system dramatically depressed, racing thoughts crawl to a normal pace; in a depressed state, the physical pain that accompanies depression is alleviated whole. By no means am I advocating the use of opiates to treat manic depression nor do I think that Edgar Allan Poe himself would inasmuch as it would be possible for him to do so in his own day, which exhibited a lack of knowledge in both terminology and treatment in the field of addictionology.
But there can be, today, in retrospect, a relatively high resolution of clarity and reality to the idea that Edgar Allan Poe applied morphine as a solution to a complex set of problems that ultimately did not ameliorate them.|||
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