Yes, dry drunk or dipping into some other compensatory evil.
I worked with a couple people who were recovering alcoholics...they invited me to one of their meetings which I expected to hear such awful stories of hardhip...when in fact the problems they faced really were pretty much what most people face.
I came away realizing that some just haven’t learned or don’t know how to live and surpass their hardships...so they escape via drugs and booze....until it hooks them.