Artiste, I would like to see the clinical and sociological research that corroborates your assertion that there is a higher incidence of alcoholism and substance abuse than in the general population.
It is very dangerous ground to tread on, when one chooses to take their own observations, and paint an entire faction of society with them. If that is the case, then I can state, with equal certainty, that I have seen a far higher incidence of alcoholism in the heterosexual community, than the homosexual community.
I find your generalizations regarding this issue to be very disparaging, and, once again, credence giving to the stereotypes that many of us have fought long and hard to prove wrong.