he became an addict

[alpacinoutd]

Are these good?

1. He became a heroin addict. He came from work to get high, injecting the nights away.

2. He became a cocaine addict. He came from work to get high, sniffing the afternoons away.

3. He became a pot addict. He came from work to get high, smoking the afternoons away.

[Charlie Bernstein]

Are these good?

1. He became a heroin addict. He came home from work to get high, injecting [or shooting] the nights away.

2. He became a cocaine addict. He came home from work to get high, snorting the afternoons away. [Sniffing sounds old-fashioned.]

3. He became a pothead. He came home from work to get high, smoking the afternoons away.

Yes, they are.

The changes I made make them much more natural.

[alpacinoutd]

What about this?

He became a heroin addict. He came home from work to get high, injecting the nights away until sleep took him.

[Charlie Bernstein]

Those last four words don't seem necessary. They're already implied.

[emsr2d2]

For me, "injecting the nights away" suggests that he did it all night and, therefore, didn't get any sleep!

[Tdol]

sniffing the afternoons away.

We use snort for powders like powdered drugs, and sniff for liquid ones like glue or poppers where people inhale the vapours.

[Charlie Bernstein]

For me, "injecting the nights away" suggests that he did it all night and, therefore, didn't get any sleep!

Good point.

[Tdol]

Doesn't heroin make you sleep? Morphine is named after the Greek god of sleep.

[jutfrank]

Unlike 2 and 3, I don't think 1 works at all. You can't 'inject the night away' if what you're injecting is heroin. For a start, you'll only be injecting every four or five hours or so, in between long stretches of very sleep-like inactivity.

[Tdol]

Luckily, I can do long stretches of very sleep-like activity without help.