REB BARDs this post is W-A-Y too late I should have found it after your fall, however....better late then never, and you can see why.
sefer omer hatenufa: netzach shebigvura [below is a word for word transliteration- i can't type in hebrew]
gm eiruvin 5 'kol makom shene'emar netzach selah vaed, ain lah hefsek" Vilazeh Yoreh Lanu midah Zu netzach shebigvura, lehorot sheliolam yihyeh adam bigvura zu lehisgaber al yitzro, ki im yakeil leatzmo beshum pa'am velo yisgaber ka'ari la'amod kinegdo, lo yoilu lo kol mah shehisgaber ad heina ki im bechol rega yisgaber bigvura zu "
You gotta get the YH when it's down. You gotta finish him off, it's not enough to overcome him. And every single day you must be misgabeir ka'ari to fight him, because if you aren't ready for a full blow battle, he can overcome all the gevura you mustered untill now. In short, the name of the game is "overkill" or belashon am zar K-O-T
Also, stamazoy see the medrash tanchuma on parshahs shmini, about the issur shtiyas yayin.... funny enough, it gives a breakdown of what addiction leads to (alot of what it says is primarily for AA, yet another reason to see it mybe, but one short shtikel apllies to all adictions)
Ain lanu eisek betoras nistar, I saw it quoted in "usfartem lachem" by R Daniel Parish (ba'al Matok Midvash al hazohar). The tanchuma I do learn.
!!drofdooW