Men are, on the whole, also provided much less social support and education in handling negative emotions. So it would be understandable that they would perform

Men are, on the whole, also provided much less social support and education in handling negative emotions. So it would be understandable that they would perform more extreme forms of self-medication. We know that related constructs vary more across cultures (ie - that present variance in the levels of social integration) than between the genders, which suggests that the chief causes of the difference here are more social than biological.