the many ways that heroin dealing from my tower impacts upon everyone else: aggressive noise, vandalism, vomit and other befouling of the lift and the walkways, having my access to the building restricted (the 'back' - for me, the front) door locked to try to keep the buyers out (which doesn't work anyway), scary looking people hanging around the floor waiting to score, my dealer neighbours treating me in an unfriendly and suspicious way, breaking down the sense of community on the floor because everyone knows what is happening but dare not talk about it, being woken at five in the morning when the police break down the dealer's door, etc, etc.
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the many ways that heroin dealing from my tower impacts upon everyone else: aggressive noise, vandalism, vomit and other befouling of the lift and the walkways, having my access to the building restricted (the 'back' - for me, the front) door locked to try to keep the buyers out (which doesn't work anyway), scary looking people hanging around the floor waiting to score, my dealer neighbours treating me in an unfriendly and suspicious way, breaking down the sense of community on the floor because everyone knows what is happening but dare not talk about it, being woken at five in the morning when the police break down the dealer's door, etc, etc.