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Why Alcohol Should Remain the Dominant Form of “Medicine” for Anxiety, Social Interaction, and Creativity

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Richard L. Johnson
Mar 11, 2025
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One of the most frequent causes of death is the unrelieved anxiety which afflicts people in modern society. Those who live in close contact with such people, whether physicians or others, know that these individuals do not always recognize the pain of their affliction. They feel neither fully alive nor fully dead.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarath…

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