Shen Yuan puts an arm behind him to rub little circles into his back. "Like I said, I'm no doctor, but by my time, alcoholism is--it's a known issue," he says, quietly. "Not only withdrawal, but the compulsion to drink, too. Neither makes you weak, nor are you alone in it." He thinks about Claudius, another man he's barely seen without a drink in his hand, or Wei Wuxian, with his endless bottles of Emperor's Smile. "I suspect you're not even alone in it here, though I don't know for sure."