The set-up: This is an excerpt from a book titled "Straight Pepper Diet" by Joseph W. Naus. The author is a guy who was destroyed/almost destroyed (I haven't finished the book yet) by his addictions. He has been arrested, and is attending court-ordered rehab. The speaker at rehab has just explained to them how addiction is tested on mice, and how mice will refuse to eat - up to the point of death - until they get their next fix.
"My first thought is, who would do this to these cute little mice? I picture a white mouse wiggling its cute little nose. Poor guy, all strung out. After the experiment did they send them to rehab? Are there little mice rehabs? Or do they just party until they die? The little emaciated mice, in a cage, all around a black leather couch, wearing dark glasses, chopping up fat white lines on a glass table, and taking turns snorting them up their tiny little nostrils with miniature rolled hundred-dollar bills. Stacks of untouched cheddar-cheese blocks in various degrees of mold surround them. "I'm Just Waiting For The Man" is playing in the background on a miniature turntable."
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