We can endlessly complicate this picture involving new combinations, but apparently, in the analysis of the interaction of alcohol (such as tobacco or other drugs) with the human body and our mind we’ll never reach the full knowledge. However, remaining within the frameworks of behaviorism we breach its logic step by step. The more options and combinations, the more clearly the simplicity turns into complexity and verifiable things are replaced by hypothetical ones. On the other hand, understanding the complexity of any biological organism (not just human) we feel a priori it shall really be so. The Alcohol with its C2H5OH formula is not a very complicated organic compound. Drinking it is a simple act too. But the more elements in our body it touches, the heavier the consequences snowball is, the less accurate is our description. It’s evident that one can’t play chess rationally when the chessmen are much more than 32. Then the only thing left is to follow a new chess player advice: when you understand that you’re definitely losing your game, sweep the chessmen off the board and propose your partner to start the game again. However, it’s better to compare the alcohol addiction to a cardsharp with five hidden aces rather than with a chess partner. Right now let’s note another paradox that troubles me for a long time. We leave alcohol as a long-term folk means against many problems. But other traditional drugs, morphine for example, often were viewed as means helping support human mental health. Having become a troublesome drug the morphine was replaced with tranquilizers that used to be considered safe and universal means to recover calmness and sound sleep. It didn’t last long. The end of these discoveries was the same ether total ban or strict prescription frameworks, which can’t prevent a drug abuse or an addiction anyway.

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