And sure enough, if a drug addict is going through a period of trying to control the drug or to quit, the longer he craves the drug without giving into that craving, then the greater the feeling of deprivation and misery and the greater the feeling of pleasure or crutch when he finally gives in to the craving. Make no mistake, in such circumstances both the misery and the pleasure are genuine and intense. Hence the expressions, “The drinking wasn’t so bad. It was the bits in between that were tough”,
