Alcohol Abuse

Alcohol abuse produces more pain than pleasure.   Most problem drinkers appreciate the damage their drinking causes to self and loved ones, yet they continue to drink.   Some don't know any better; others have tried to change their drinking pattern and failed. 

Basic and applied research conducted over the past two decades has shed light on what works and for whom.   These pages summarize the findings that will help the intelligent layperson  complete their passage to independence from alcohol. 

Recommended starting points:

• Why intoxication is rewarding
   
• Mood Disorders
   
• Stress Management
  
• Alcohol and Brain
  
• Pathology and the Study of Paths
  
• How to take action
  
  
• Optical Illusions
  
  
• The Soul Illusion
  
  
• Free Will and Chemical Dependency
  

As a cure for worry, work is better than whiskey.

  - Thomas Edison

There is a lot of pain in life.  The only pain that can be avoided is the pain that results from trying to avoid pain.

  - R. D. Laing

Not free from what, but free for what?

  - Nietzsche