Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-33937557-20180603171940/@comment-5733573-20180605223536

DrBobSmith wrote: BloodySpaghetti, My experience with heroin addicts is that it takes weeks to get addicted. You are right. You aren't an addict overnight.

You can be dead overnught though. It doesn't take that much to reach the ld50 for a small ten year old. Those numbers I supplied earlier can be verified by Dr. Google. It's way too easy to get bogged down by details here. I think the important things to focus on: does the story make logical sense within itself (even if the science isn't exact), and is the style consistent? If the answer is yes to both, that's good enough. You shouldn't write for the purpose of showing someone how much you know/researched. If a story works, it works, and most people are happy with that.