Thank you for checking out my song and for your reply. I have had an interesting relationship with addiction in general throughout my life, have devoted a lot of time and energy in research on the subject, but I am especially saddened by the recent resurgence of heroin use across the US, and have been thinking a lot lately about how much this novel still applies to life now, over 60 years after its original publication. Times have changed, but the story essentially remains the same.