I don't have an answer to this question because I've never experienced the issue, but I have a related comment. I find it interesting that whenever Anglos spea

I don't have an answer to this question because I've never experienced the issue, but I have a related comment. I find it interesting that whenever Anglos speak of "drinking" (alcohol), what they really mean is "consuming alcohol in excess as a means of getting high". To an Anglo, beer and wine are not food, they are drugs intended for pleasure. To an Anglo, there seems to be no healthy middle. It's either "a twelve pack in two days" or "I'm completely sober these days". It's never "I had a mug of ale as a part of my dinner because that's what ale is - a traditional foodstuff". That's what beer and wine are to me - food. Nothing more. I say this as an American, and I realize my cultural values toward "drinking" are very unusual to other Americans, and Anglos in general.