LibraryScenariosWhen you justify drinking habits through quality or sophistication
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When you justify drinking habits through quality or sophistication

I only drink expensive wine and tell myself that makes it classy but I still drink it alone every night until I pass out.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

We use cultural markers of refinement to avoid confronting the rawness of our actual relationship to substances.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Alcohol and the body?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.