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From: mjc@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA (Monica Cellio)
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Subject: Re: feelin' no pain?   (pain vs. nothing)
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Date: Wed, 20-Mar-85 22:31:29 EST
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From: folta@yale.ARPA (Stephen Folta)
>>       Why else do people abuse alcohol?  Drugs?   [Moira Mallison]
>'Cause they would rather feel ANYTHING (including pain) than feel nothing.
>Drugs (alcohol in particular) can intensify pain as well as mask it.

I think alcohol and drugs make people feel something *other* than the pain
they're trying to escape or mask, and they think that is better than feeling
nothing.  I don't think most people drink/etc to deliberately enhance pain,
though.

						-Dragon
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