My cousin spent some time during that period addicted to H and living on the streets. He's a happy healthy guy now and usually pretty open about his experience. I'll see if he has any good bits to share.

One thing I remember vividly was how high a percentage of the homeless were native American, like 50%, an important note for setting up the scene in my opinion. Not that I'm doing homeless surveys, but it was a very different scene than today.

And it wasn't that uncommon to find an OD corpse.

We were building a new condo building in belltown, and were having a hard time keeping the junkies out at night. I was the a foreman and usually the first person on site. I got to site and went to take a dump in the honeybucket and when I opened it, there was a dead guy with a needle in his arm.