In addiction, time becomes arrhythmic.
When intoxicated by a stimulant,
thoughts and actions speed up from their ordinary rate but the brain fails to
encode these sped-up experiences as proper memories.
During withdrawal, the
opposite happens — time dilates and expands.
Hyperfocus on the present craving
for the drug makes the tortuous physical symptoms seem interminable and a
dependency-free future seem infinitely distant, resulting in the cruel temporal trap of addiction
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