a great deal of alcohol, weed, etc, is consumed ,very specifcly, to forget. to the point that users, often workers doing labour, or other jobby jobs, get fairly aggetated by days, and especialy weeks end, wrapped up in an overload of the realities of serving others interests, and ends. drugs provide a crude function similar to the processing that occurs durring sleep and dreaming. That this has effects on the gut, is hardly unexpected ,but that the system will recover with due care, is. Treating the gut as a self maintaining biological digester, which it is, then suggests looking at how various industrial digestors operate and malfunction.