One theory is that this song is about Methadone, which is a pink/reddish color. Layne Staley may have either entertained getting on, or actually got on a Methadone program.
"Artificial Red, smoke, poison consumed in the house of ill repute": Methadone clinics are filled with cigarette smokers, they are dirty, and they are not non-profit. They want people to believe they are helping, and to some degree they are, but they are in business to make money, and they don't want you to leave. They let you take your "dose" up as high as you like, and it's miserable go back down. Layne could have seen this and likened it to the clinic whoring out the methadone, hence the "House of Ill Repute."
"Is this the way I spend my days in recovery of a fatal disease?": Methadone patients have to come to the clinic everyday, stand in line (which is sometimes for a long time), are submitted UA's and are generally miserable.
"Alone, untouched is what I crave": This could indicate that this methadone idea wasn't his, maybe he's doing it for other people. Maybe he just wants to sit at home, continue doing heroin, and be left alone.
"Is this the place I search for Love? When my need is within my, a gift from above.": His "need within" was his craving for heroin, he probably thinks he was born that way, hence "gift from above."
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