The Vicodins made me feel superior. They focused my thinking, and in all my 20 year old life, I had never found anything else like them. All the caffeine and sugared up drinks in the world could not give you this euphoric high, even if you drank more than a dozen. Even getting drunk couldn't hold a candle to the way those pills made me think.
I could write out 3 papers in the time it normally took to write one, and I still had plenty of energy to do 6 others things, and hunt down my girlfriend for some extra special loving. I had been thinking about them even more, since I hadn't had one in 3 months. I needed more. I loved that feeling, and I didn't know how much longer I could go without more. The only question was, "how?"