“The worst part is the psychological thing. Once [drug use] is in your emotional vocabulary as your get-out – ‘I can stop feeling crap by doing this’ – you have to reorder your thinking.”
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Las Vegas, where Welsh’s new novel is set. Photograph: Heather Diehl/Getty Images
Reordering thoughts isn’t always easy, but, for Welsh, making the decision seems tantamount to its execution. He has a sort of self-applied strictness, which implies he is his own master, but also gives the impression of having to countermand his compulsions.
— Read on www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/aug/03/irvine-welsh-trainspotting-new-novel-can-nothing-save-us
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