I'm not a scientist, but even I'm aware of things like the drunken money thesis - a nose for alcohol leads some of mans ancestors to the ripest fruit - they live.
I'm aware about theories that give evolutionary credence to creativity and euphoria and problem solving and the like.
I'm aware of suggestions that for many centuries to drink alcohol was actually more healthy than to drink the water - cholera typhoid etc
In the end, they're just theories.
In the end - here on a recovery board - so what?
I don't really think all theories do us - we the people reading this - good service.
I read a theory recently that binge drinking may be a kind of behavourial memory back to the days when wine could, and did, go bad quickly.
'Oh, it's entrenched then. Damn....'
Not the best message to have on a recovery site.
See where I'm going with this?
This is real life, real people - it's not grad school where the air can tend get a little...rareified.
(and yes I've been there)
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Last edited by Dee74; 04-01-2009 at 12:53 AM.