If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.