Note 75 — Chapter V · Some Lessons of the War.
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It should not be forgotten, however, that resort is often made to alcohol as an easy means of drowning the worry of an incessant mental conflict. In other words, it is clear that in treating alcoholism, as in treating insanity, we are not absolved from the plain duty of seeking its mental cause or causes. “Drink” then, in many cases, appears rather as a secondary complication than as a primary factor.