I eat food to improve my mood.
I go shooting to improve my mood.
I do lots of stuff to improve my mood.
Reason 5: The perfect dry martini is God’s gift to man and just
plain tastes good.
Don’t forget (pun) that it can also be for gustatory and/or social lube purposes. The scientist is not the philosopher or theologian.
Brute force drowning of troubles to pretend they don’t exist is wrong, but easing through them while still proceeding constructively may not be wrong. It’s the difference between “don’t worry” and “don’t care.”
We have a multifaceted issue here.
I know someone who drinks heavily because she lost an election.
Why not post the entire piece from your site? Click baitin is not nice.
“Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol.”
Yeah, come home after a rough day and I have glass of wine to feel better. It often ends tragically. I have to get up the next morning, go back to work and experience another s4itty day.
Why do they want to reduce alcohol consumption?
Alcohol provides a whole wealth of benefits. This would include a multitude of jobs supporting the whole industry and good health benefits (physical, mental, spiritual). Even Jesus drank alcohol.
This whole demonizing items because ‘experts’ (paid propagandists with an agenda) needs to be called out and exposed wherever we see it.
I hardly drink. But this makes me want to get something just because now.
Many people who do drugs drink after or while doing those drugs in order to smother some of the paranoia from the drugs. Other addicts get drunk while in withdrawal.
I almost never drink because I’d rather get my calories from potato chips or donuts, when I do drink, it’s wine having dinner with friends.
In my “yout”, I liked a good vodka martini up.
“Motivation 2: People drink alcohol for social reasons
In this situation, alcohol consumption is closely related to one’s social life and, as a rule, leads to moderate consumption of alcohol. Researchers believe that in such cases, physicians need to work not with specific patients, as in the case of the first motivation, but instead, they need to work at the state level.”
Work at the state level? Nazi bastages.
People drink because they are either happy, sad or bored.
I wonder if my ex gf was part of this study.
Not saying this to be funny, but she was “literally” a case study in alcoholism.
A study group on alcoholism from IU followed and interviewed her and her family regularly for 20 years.
I didn’t learn of this until near the end of our relationship, when her barely-functioning, closeted binge-drinking alcoholism finally took it’s toll on me.
When I drank I never needed a motivation
what if they ONLY drink alcohol, then forgo the additional act of drinking their motivations, too...?
Why do people eat hash oil chocolate barszzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....?
Oh. ‘Medicine’
Weeks after I stopped drinking 24 years ago, I remember hearing one view was, alcoholics drink because they think they have to.
That was fairly close to my own view, once I drank due to addiction.
Substance addiction produces withdrawal discomfort, which the user seeks to avoid, keeping the cycle going.
So I quit just once, cold turkey. No detox, no coddling, just AA and gradually learning that I could do without, after all.
Physical discomfort minimal. Mental adjustment to change, plenty of challenge learning new thinking. IOW learning that I didn’t have to drink, and to be fine with that.
To make other people more interesting.
I call bs. No one said they drink alcohol because it tastes good? Not one? Ridiculous. The fruity stuf with vodka or rum in it, a good beer someone likes, a good wine, or a certain brand of a distilled spirit?
Please.
Hmmm... a little Angel’s Envy with a few ice cubes... or a dry Martini with olives... or a Manhattan... or a nice dry red wine... they just plain taste good.
That’s why I drink them, at least.