New synopsis

Now that I have the 'skeleton' down, I can start adding the 'muscle and flesh' in the form of scenes and characters. =) (Thanks Luke...)

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A young man quits smoking pot after a 4 year daily addiction and tries to cope with the physical and social changes that come about. He can't sleep, and after numerous nights of cold sweats and terrible nightmares (when he is able to sleep) he increases his alcohol consumption in order to knock himself out. Too many skipped days at work from being constantly hungover cause him to leave his mundane job. He hates the share house he inhabits as everybody there smokes, as do all the friends who are constantly over so he moves out. On his way home from a night out, in the early morning, he helps out a young woman from being ticketed on the tram. He likes the idea of staying away from home and agrees to join her for a beer in a 24 hour pub. He finds out she is a junkie who is waiting for her dealer and his own addiction suddenly feels insignificant in comparison. As she leaves to score he meets a hospitality worker during a pool game who offers him a job and shouts him a heap of speed. Jobless and keen for a new start, the young man accepts the offer and is unknowingly pulled into another world of drugs and glossy instant gratification which he not long ago tried to escape from. This new job and essentially new but more social addiction leads him to gain confidence with women, and he ends up moving in with his first girlfriend after only 2 weeks of knowing one another. Over the course of the next year a close friend of his commits suicide and he witnesses a man repeatedly beating a woman at one of the venues he is employed by. After these events he leaves the industry and soon after leaves his girlfriend for what he tells her is incompatibility. He seeks a new start (without as many possible vices attached). He accepts a night-fill position in a supermarket where he soon meets his new house mate, an older bloke who smokes pot but is friendly and has a flat close to work. His new home situation causes him to become a reclusive addict once again, now with alcohol. After repeating the same mistakes, he realises that he needs to change more than simply his career or the people around him. He moves into a flat on his own, starts a new job, and begins to write...