What distinguishes drunks from other people - and I was one for a good 30 years - is the confidence they feel in relation to alcohol. They really do believe they can handle it. That's why many (I was not one of those myself) eschew other drugs they feel might actually cause them to lose the control they are certain they have even when sloshed. Oddly, Berryman's Love & Fame was one of the books that got me seriously thinking about drying out. Another was Donald Newlove's Those Drinking Days.
Frank, thanks for the link ... and the insight.
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