Chapter 6 Summary and Analysis

James has his first user dream. He is in a room with drugs and alcohol. He drinks, sniffs, and smokes maniacally, despite the inner voice that begs him not to. Just as his high climaxes, he wakes up in the Clinic with overwhelming fear and anxiety. He takes a shower and then vomits. As the sickness subsides, James is overcome by the totality of his addiction and how much it has twisted his life. He cries until he hears his roommates wake up, then composes himself because he does not want them to find him so vulnerable.

Warren and John go to look for Larry, who is missing, but James knows that Larry has left the Clinic to try to rejoin his family, and James sends a blessing out to him. James's spirituality first appears in this scene, when he pronounces...