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I drank 18 whiskeys: I think it’s the record,” said Dylan Thomas: naturally, they were his last words. “Writers drink. It’s what we do,” says U.S. writer Sarah Hepola, who (however) also quotes Stephen King, whose addictions tormented him for decades: “The idea that creative effort and psychotropic substances go hand in hand is one of the greatest myths of our time, both at the sophisticated level and in popular culture…..