When David's Clucking one must fill him with booze...

... just to get the bastard to sleep and be left alone.

1.	Clucking
	To Cluck is one of the many euphemisms used to describe going cold turkey, a sudden stoppage of the addictive drug heroin and other opiates and opioids (e.g morphine, methadone, codiene, opium and many more, marketed pain killers)