Looking for the title of a sci-fi book I read in the early to mid 70s?

The story is about some sort of dystopian society where everything is controlled by some sort of central government. The main part of the story I remember is that the character (a boy) requests a construction set from the people who control the supply of goods but is rejected. The people are controlled by a periodic injection which is administered by placing your arm into a machine.

He bypasses this by placing cotton wool or an elastoplast or a bandage over his veins to block the injection. This is further described in the book when he returns home and squeezes the chemical out, against a sink or bath. This is all I remember but it has always bugged me.

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2 The injection machine and the method of bypassing it, plus the approval or rejection of requests for goods by a central government (a computer) sounds like "This Perfect Day" by Ira Levin. It was published in 1970. Levin also wrote "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Stepford Wives".

The injection machine and the method of bypassing it, plus the approval or rejection of requests for goods by a central government (a computer) sounds like "This Perfect Day" by Ira Levin. It was published in 1970. Levin also wrote "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Stepford Wives".

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