Chapter 4. Why the Drug Gradually Becomes Not Pleasure, but a Way of Getting Through an Ordinary Day.
There is a point in some forms of addiction that is difficult to recognise because, by the time it arrives, the original pleasure may already be almost irrelevant. The person may still remember what the drug once felt like. They may remember the first evenings when everything became lighter, quieter, more interesting, more distant, or […]
Chapter 3. At What Point Does a Way of Coping With Oneself Begin to Live Instead of the Person?
There is probably no exact moment when a habit stops being something a person does and starts becoming something that seems to happen to them. People often want to find such a moment afterward. They look back at the first use, the first period of regular use, the first time they hid it, the first […]
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