When you inject heroin you first draw blood out of your vein and let the drug mix with your blood. you then push it into your body. Addicts refer to an empty vein as one that has been used so much that you can no longer draw blood. So certainly in one sense this is about drug addiction but ultimately its bigger than that. The nature is true addiction is that one starts out with the goal of killing pain, ending pain, relieving pain. Quickly the drugs become necessary for the body's function and cause greater and greater pain. its a methaphor for life, often that which we think will bring us peace will bring us greater misfortune.
When you inject heroin you first draw blood out of your vein and let the drug mix with your blood. you then push it into your body. Addicts refer to an empty vein as one that has been used so much that you can no longer draw blood. So certainly in one sense this is about drug addiction but ultimately its bigger than that. The nature is true addiction is that one starts out with the goal of killing pain, ending pain, relieving pain. Quickly the drugs become necessary for the body's function and cause greater and greater pain. its a methaphor for life, often that which we think will bring us peace will bring us greater misfortune.