"The whole process is like having a bad case of the flu, and the patient will begin to feel better after three or four days." However, notes Dr. Huang, the sense of fear and helplessness in this period may indeed feel like "being on the edge of death."
「整個過程就像得一場重感冒似的，只要三、四天就會好轉」，不過黃亨興表示，此刻戒毒者心理的恐懼、無助，卻有如「生離死別」一般。