having just read this for the first time i'm pretty sickened too. i cant believe for one minute that they would have run these random jottings of nicks as an article if he hadnt died.
whenever i met nick he'd tell me about his drugs experiences, and maybe just because he knew what kind of lifestyle i lead (i haven't touched any kind of drug even tea or coffee, with the exception of a few beers now and then since 1996) he wouldn't frame his "reports" as hunter s thompson-style triumphs. actually he spoke quite warily about them (he WAS quite enthusiastic about ketamine the first time we met) maybe he even looked to me as a nutjob who he could really identify with who didnt use drugs.
however he did become noticeably less enthused. the last time we met, at the first dissensus meet we spoke for a long time and he told me he'd "slipped back" into taking alot of coke and e. i had the feeling that for a while he'd tried to push drugs out of life a little. it was with genuine regret and weariness that he told me this, and thats what makes reading these jottings vice just saw fit (somewhat conveniently) to run a bit of an insult (at least to my memory of nick.
as for heroin, which nick od'd on, well no-one really thought he was doing heroin anymore (i knew he had in the past) that this wasnt common knowledge to even the people very close to him, smacks of the kind of complexity of the situation.
i'm sure nick wouldnt have objected, he may have even been delighted, and i'm sure nicks close friends (they know who they are) were right not to stop vice (doing so would be to censor the dead) but i think its truly pathetic, even disgusting, that a sensationalist piece of drivelling shit like VICE would see fit to capitalise on the scenario as it unfurled. i wonder if nick would have that published if he knew he was going to die at the hands of drugs so quickly?
VICE go fuck yourselves.