I'm pretty sure this is [Greenplace][1] by Tom Purdom. Many things match but some do not. It starts with the protagonist being placed in a wheelchair by a large bodyguard. He then injects himself with a red (not blue) liquid. The bodyguard pushes him around the neighborhood and the inhabitants are hostile. It ends > This campaign was going to be worse. He could imagine the efforts the > Boyd organization would make to control the minds of himself and his > friends. They would attack his psyche with every weapon in the modern > arsenal. As plainly as it were a drama projected on a screen, he > could see the psych technicians maneuvering across the Eighth > Congressional District... It was in the [1965 World's Best Science Fiction][2] Carr and Wollheim collection. You can read it online in the Internet Archive [here][3]. [1]: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?58813 [2]: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?50538 [3]: https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v027n05_1964-11_PDF/page/n1/mode/2up