Booth's Mental health

[Eva Elisabeth]

Welcome to the forum, Rosieo!

Certainly JWB was physically used to drink, and that "drinking did not knock him out" indicates this. I wonder what his blood alcohol level was in the evening of April 14.

However, re: "JWB needed medical detox and long-term rehab – just for his addiction" - I wonder if he would have agreed. I tend to believe he wouldn't have allowed and attempt to interfere in his lifestyle. He himself didn't seem to suffer (enough to give up drinking), nor did this influence his ability to manage life and making a living. He certainly could have gotten engagements if he hadn't been busy plotting.

I don't know US law about this, but in Germany you can only legally enforce someone undergoing such therapy when he becomes a danger to himself or others (that JWB turned out to be a deadly danger to Lincoln was probably not a consequence of his drinking). Likewise you cannot force smokers, binge-eaters etc to undergo a therapy however beneficial that might be to them/their health condition.

And I wonder by how many addicts of all kind of drugs (choral, opiates, cannabis, etc) JWB was surrounded in his days.