In a message dated 2/7/00 5:30:32 PM, [log in to unmask] writes:

<<<ascerbic wit on>

I could be wrong, but I think they drank so they could get drunk.

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Kyle's correct, we drank to get drunk and to forget. Now if you ask what Iwas
trying to forget, I will answer in Dean Martin's fashion,  I don't know I've
forgotten, already. Basically, if you read the literature on disability and
substance, the
predisposing factors are: pain, lowered social status, easier access to
psychoactive meds, and surrounded by people with unhealthy enabling
attitudes, such as, "If I were in his/her shoes, I would drink or drug too."

Bobby