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As soon as Bill arrives in Mexico City he begins searching for junk, apparently with no initial success. He visits several gay bars and engages in casual homosexual intercourse with a few partners. After several months Bill hires a lawyer to secure residence papers; while visiting the lawyer's office he meets another junky named Old Ike. All of the drug trade in Mexico City is controlled by a woman named Lupita, an enormously fat woman who began using drugs to control her weight. She went from being a user to being a pusher. Her network heavily bribes law enforcement and thus operates entirely in the open. Her prices are very steep and her product is heavily cut pantopon. Nevertheless, her stranglehold over the drug trade in Mexico City is complete. Old Ike, like almost all other junkies, bought from Lupita. Bill...