Just as we are rescuing the sex drive from our subconscious and from shame, so we need to take the intoxication drive out into the open where it can breathe.36 Stuart Walton calls for a whole new field of human knowledge called “intoxicology.”37 He writes: “Intoxication plays,38 or has played, a part in the lives of virtually everybody who has ever lived . . . To seek to deny it is not only futile; it is a dereliction of an entirely constitutive part of who we are.”
