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Why do men take to any kind of addiction?

Why do (some) men get drunk? OR why do (some) males get addicted to alcohol or drugs? There may be several reasons …but couple of the main ones may be enumerated as follows: Since childhood boys are made to study and read books on great personalities like scientists, patriots, literary figures etc. They are literally made to mug up stuff discovered/ invented by the great personalities, their date of birth, schooling, name of parents etc. Somehow they pass all school/ college examinations and ultimately observe that they have to lick the feet of whoever is higher in position than them. The ‘high’ or ‘low’ position is judged by the bank balance – ie. if a person is rich, he is big, if a person is not financially well off – he is nothing..or of least significance  (how the money is earned or how the person has become rich is not relevant – it may be by selling drugs in colleges, selling humans in slave/sex trade – whatever).  It is at this revelation that ‘weaker’ males...