Trainspotting

Twenty-Second of Edinburgh, Mark Renton chose "honest and sincere addiction" to avoid worrying about sex, work, or social relationships. He has friends—better acquaintances—with whom he can steal, talk trash, drink beer, and get drunk: Sick Boy, provocative and oxygenated hair, Begbie, unpredictably violent and alcoholic, Tommy, who tries to stay out of the heroin scene, and Spud, perhaps the only one he can trust. Amid attempts at detoxification, relapses, and an unexpected hit that could change everything