">I suspect he's actively drinking from time to time, and may have found benzodiazepines, too."

When he was AWOL back in the 70's during his military "stint", he didn't show up for his physical, which became mandatory a couple of years later. Lord knows the CIA was in charge of bringing lots of coke in back in those days. Clinton's medical records never surfaced because he had no septum left in his nose (or how the story goes). Funny, the Kennedy family made their money running alcohol........the Bush family........well, you KNOW, plus of course "trading with the enemy" (Prescott Bush).

Bush appears wimpy and confused most of the time, so I suspect that this "war" thing keeps everybody going off in another direction, and away from his loose lips. As for his "lovely wife" Laura, as sweet and as southern as she may be, she's probably spineless and an "enabler" if she let him drink that much back in the early days. Hell, she didn't have to worry if he came home or not, or if he found his jollies in the company of other men, because she married into wealth and was not about to rock the boat.
Hubby not home? Hubby to drunk to come to dinner? Why, just go shopping!

Forget the diazepan!
What if he's on Prosac?
THAT and alcohol puts you in la-la land, just read the stories on the survivors' web site.
Nah, I figure he's got his hands on Halcyon, the drug of choice of Air Force One and half the administration when his dad was president.
THAT makes you maniacal.
Duh.

(P.S. I worked as a pharmacy tech for years, so was kinda up on these things.....AND followed the stories........;~)