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What drug was Dvorak's character on?

posted 13 years ago by ElectricKoolaidAcid
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It seemed at first she was likely on coke, since she seemed tired after the first night "partying" with her gangster boyfriend.

But then later on in the movie, when the gansters have her boarded up in her bedroom, someone asks if they were able to score any dope for her, as she was "in desperate need." Coke isn't something somebody absolutely NEEDS to go on living... She also appeared sick and jumpy, and in one scene her nose was itching (all symptoms of heroin withdrawal, if anything). I was just wondering which was her DOC since it was never absolutely clear in this movie, which BTW I must have watched at least a dozen times in the last 10 years- one of my favorites!

[–] butaneggbert 7 years ago

I don't think a party girl in monied company necessarily relied on just one drug.

And multiple concurrent addictions aren't rare. Google "speedball" for as one example - the combo that killed John Belushi. He was a classic "gimme whatever ya got" drugster.

I can imagine Dvorak's character being that indiscriminate. Her only goal was to fill a gaping psychological hole, so I can't see her being terribly fussy about what she took moment to moment, and how many things she became addicted to. Coke, opiates, alcohol - she'd have access to all of those.
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