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A graduate artist: http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2008/02/17/news/casper/b2c48fc8a27b07cc872573f20077b4d6.txt Mind you, I used to have a theory that one of the most serious effects of long-term heroin use was a condition known as "poeticus-crappicus" - where the patient is beset by bizarre hallucinations and the belief that he/she can write good poetry. Most of it covers well worn standard subjects including: the needle of death the valley of the shadow of death (in the UK, parodies of Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade" are a popular favourite), gutters and one-way streets. A little known side-effect of this disease is the condition "articus-rubbishus" where sufferers paint or draw horses, ice-queens, naked women, knights, dragons, dice and demons - and assume that they are great art. There may be no cure for these diseases. Rowdy Yates Senior Research Fellow Scottish Addiction Studies Department of Applied Social Science University of Stirling E: [log in to unmask] T: 01786 - 467737 W: http://www.dass.stir.ac.uk/sections/showsection.php?id=4 (home) W: http://www.drugslibrary.stir.ac.uk/ (library) -- The University of Stirling is a university established in Scotland by charter at Stirling, FK9 4LA. Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not disclose, copy or deliver this message to anyone and any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind.