Many people drink too much in order to escape from their lives, forget their troubles, or "drown their sorrows." And since alcohol makes the brain and memory go fuzzy, some people actually forget what's troubling them, at least for a night. But when the person wakes up, all the troubles are still there. Alcohol never, ever fixes what is wrong with somebody's life. In fact, it almost always makes things worse, because alcoholism is just one more problem to add to whatever else is going on.