And I was pretty stoned when I wrote it, because of the Oxy, and that’s another book that shows the drugs at work. And I couldn’t work on a computer back then because it hurt too much to sit in that position. As he recalls in a 2014 interview with Rolling Stone, his usage of the drug had an impact on the development of what was his next novel: Dreamcatcher. He had proudly written 1991’s Needful Things as his first book without the use of narcotics and alcohol, but after being struck by the van he was given a prescription for the opiate Ox圜ontin. The pain he experienced was so substantial that his long maintained sobriety was forcibly interrupted. King chronicles a first-hand account of what happened in 2000’s On Writing, which he started writing before the accident, and finished after – composing the invaluable tome in short spurts due to excruciating pain from his shattered hip. After being taken to the local hospital and then airlifted to the Central Maine Medical Center, he underwent five operations in 10 days, and Constant Readers around the world held their breath awaiting news of his condition. About a month after the publication of the novel The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, the author was walking along the shoulder of a road in Lovell, Maine, and a distracted driver ran into him with his minivan. On June 19, 1999, Stephen King was nearly killed. (Image credit: Warner Bros) What Dreamcatcher Is About
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