ABSTRACT
This chapter narrates about Lee who is one of the original group of teenagers treated locally for heroin injection and his narrative shows what life is like for someone who is still addicted. Lee narrates that if he was allowed to get some treatment from his GP, such as diazepam for during the day and temazepam of an evening for, say, four weeks, that would stop his drinking problem as well, but he was not allowed. Lee's attitude illustrates what Melanie Klein termed the paranoidschizoid position, where the other person Bernadette is seen in extreme terms as completely good or completely bad, with no grey area and with no tolerance or understanding towards the human nature. Lee is extremely unwell, as he is addicted to both alcohol and methadone. A common feature of people at this stage is a preoccupation with themselves and with their drugs to the exclusion of virtually everything else.
