Originally Posted by
IAmAbstinent 
In the past my beast has used a 'slippery slope' technique to justify another drug session.
It goes something like this 'you eat fatty/sweet foods simply for pleasure alone since they have no nutritional value...if you're going to do that you might as well go the whole hog and just take drugs cos they give the BESt pleasure'.
The Beast's only concern is for pleasure. It does not care about your life or health. It feels no pain, only desperation when losing its fix. All IT wants is its next fix. It will feel or say anything to convince you to feed it its fix. What do you care if it suffers from deprivation? Let it yammer away, it can't hurt you. If it's really a problem, stop eating candy bars.
Originally Posted by
IAmAbstinent What does one do with the lack of pleasure tho since it still looms heavy in the room?
Within the bubble of addiction, pleasure is confused with happiness, but they are not one and the same. To your Beast, life without chemically-induced pleasure is hollow and meaningless. To you, it means hope for a life. Get a grip, IamA, and tighten up all the screws. Is your Big Plan an experiment? Are you going to get high again or aren't you? How bored are you willing to get and still not get high?