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The Needle And The Damage Done

Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 10 August 1996

"I've seen the needle and the damage done / A little part of it in everyone / But every junkie's like a setting sun" — Neil Young, 'The Needle & the Damage Done' (1972)

"Cold turkey — has got me — on the run!" — John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1969)

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