Tthe cruel temporal trap of addiction

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