Just in looking for comments made by Dr. Wise Young on PN, I came across this factoid I thought some of you might like to read. This is from a section in Medscape and discusses how much drinking produces PN.

"The diagnosis is based on accurate history of prolonged and excessive alcohol intake, clinical signs and symptoms, and electrophysiologic testing. Behse and Buchtal suggested that a minimum of 100 mL of ethyl alcohol (3 L of beer or 300 mL of spirits) per day for 3 years will precipitate the neuropathy."

I don't know about the crowd you ran with, but that amount is very modest in my experience. Scary stuff. How stupid that life. Also, apparently many (if not most) drunks will , if tested, show abnormal scores on all the nerve tests but may very well be asymptomatic. In other words, they never know it. Just thought this was interesting....