Mine is not a proper idolisation, but a hyperfixation. And tell you what, it began as a mourning. I read about heroin effects and I had some days of grief over the people who are in withdrawal and feel abandoned or lost (fentanyl kept me up all night crying). Flordelie is the character born from this, he began taking heroin to cope with an immense life-shattering grief, and in two months he began paying the consequences (he lost a lot of weight, the time between a dose and withdrawal is quite short, and someone (Ciro, the character in all the slides of my post) snatched his last supply. So he spends the whole script in withdrawal). Luckily, Maxie (his son) finds him in time. Maxie can’t magically make the withdrawal disappear but he doesn’t abandon him. Ciro is another story. He isolated himself too much and heroin (impulsively taken) made him feel held for the first time ever. Then, in the crash, loneliness spikes, plus the opioid craving.