Remember when Charlie Sheen went a bit weird and moved two girls into his house and kept saying "winning" and gave off the impression that he was constantly under the influence of some sort of substance?
Even most of the serious players, who insist on actual bags of corn and wooden platforms, agree that the sport goes better with a drink, or some sort of substance, in one's free hand.
"The fact that the substance is available as a prescription drug as well as over the counter in certain formulations, and it is only approved, such a substance, in Eastern European, Baltic countries, the probability is that the athlete who is originating from that region has more contact to that sort of substance.
The relevant sort of substance is that which accounts for the past selective success of the learning mechanisms.
This sort of "substance monism" is in fact a consequence of the more general token identity theory: every concrete mental particular (token) is physical.
And it was because Locke prized apart personal identity from biological identity, and any other sort of substance-based identity, that later philosophers like Joseph Butler and Thomas Reid objected to it.
In a paper entitled "Man's Glassy Essence," published in 1892 (CP, 6.238 6.271), Peirce put forward the monistic conjecture that cytoplasm is some sort of substance that is halfway between the two extremes of mind and matter.
My father has a vineyard, and [the wine is] really delicious, by the way... Anyway, for most addicts, they would advise never to have any sort of substance.
"Don't just be drunk or under some sort of substance and just trying to get it in there," Van Kirk said.
I feel that for anyone wanting to quit any sort of substance, they might have to be in that place where they really hate what they are doing.
