Zencat: I hear you on this one. I consider drinking a very complex situation when it comes to "causation". Thus there can be mental factors, childhood abuse, genetic, cultural, personality characteristics, so called addictive personality, a whole mixed bag, including just the urge to get a buzz on. But the thing which continues to puzzle me, as I have said, is why booze, a depressant, is so often used by persons who are at the same time taking antidepressants and why doctors who prescribe these medications may continue to naively believe their patients when they say they aren't drinking and may fail to give urine tests to confirm that. I didn't want to get into the "what's the cause" issue as much as to raise the "say what's going on" issue as regards doctor and patient.
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