You have an amazing intellectual mind, cyberius. I remember once a psychologist listed a seemingly endless list of mental illnesses and conditions that he was ascribing to my late son. I said, "That's quite a list. I'm not sure I buy it, but as someone that does, what would you say can help him? Do you see any hope?" He said, "Oh definitely. One thing that is also true of your son is that he is very intelligent and it is his own rational mind that can override everything that is challenging him psychologically."
I thought that was interesting but didn't really understand it until I began to see the web of addiction (chemical induced neurosis as you put it). The rational mind is under full attack by addiction.
How did it go with the wine? Were you able to moderate?