> I think your understanding is woefully incorrect, almost to fall into the caricature of what "bad drug users" look like
Well, my experience.
Used to buy a bottle (700 CC) of spirits and it would last about 2 weeks. Became seriously mentally ill a few years ago, started drinking equivalent of 450 to 500 CC of spirits per evening (~1/2 litre), every evening, for a long time until the cash fortunately ran out. At least I could feel something, anything, when I drank.
When I got better the drinking subsided, almost back to my baseline again.
QV also soldiers on heroin in the vietnam war, when out of the stress of war they typically just gave it up iirc.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/doctor-heroin-...
> I think your understanding is woefully incorrect, almost to fall into the caricature of what "bad drug users" look like
Well, my experience.
Used to buy a bottle (700 CC) of spirits and it would last about 2 weeks. Became seriously mentally ill a few years ago, started drinking equivalent of 450 to 500 CC of spirits per evening (~1/2 litre), every evening, for a long time until the cash fortunately ran out. At least I could feel something, anything, when I drank.
When I got better the drinking subsided, almost back to my baseline again.
QV also soldiers on heroin in the vietnam war, when out of the stress of war they typically just gave it up iirc.