>Hi Tracy. I guess we don't know if it is causation or correlation. Are the people trying to self medicate as schizophrenia's symptoms begin to emerg.

"So he had this thing on his lungs, and the doctors wanted to operate on him but he didn't let them, he took to good strong domestic brandy and there you go - in a couple of years his lungs were like new. Then doctors were angry at him for healing himself so they invented him a cirrhosis of liver"

(off-top quote from "Žuta" (The Yellow Girl) by Gordan Mihić)