lot of selconsciousns, ia inadequacs. and the alcohol' a way to sort of-- it's almost like an anti-anxiety pill for them. it is a feeling, i think, of not being connected... of not fitting in, of not... of somehow not having what other people have. and i don't mean materially, and i don't mean-- it's just there was something missing and there was something always missing. that's the only way i know how to describe it. there was just this hole, and when i used and drank, i didn't feel that hole. i could fill that hole up, and that was the only solution that i had. when they feel that urge, rather than responding to it, which is what they've done for years, they need to learn strategies to help them avoid use at this point. and that's a large part of what treatment tries to do. it tries to teach skills, skills in terms of avoiding people, places, and things that put them at risk. there's sober-living houses where people move out of their environment and live in a loosely structured treatment program where people go to so ma