Hastily wrote long passage, making a drug into something that might be boring (8)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

“screed”(a long piece of writing/passage) replacing ( making a … into … ) “E”(abbrev. for the drug, Ecstasy) with AWL(a small pointed tool that might be used for boring/piercing holes).