Original sentence: Many books have been written and in at least two of these, Bush is described as having having symptoms visible today which indicate that he did abuse drugs and alcohol excessively at some time in his past.The reader is directed to  for more discussion.There has been much discussion regarding possible drug and alcohol abuses, primarily during Bush's youth.Though Bush admitted to alcohol abuse, he only alluded to using illicit drugs in his youth
Edited sentence: " He ascribed the change in part to a 1985 meeting with The Rev." and admitted to drinking "too much" in those years; he says that although he never joined Alcoholics Anonymous, he gave up drinking for good shortly after waking up with a hangover after his 40th birthday celebration: "I quit drinking in 1986 and haven't had a drop since then.Because I don’t want some little kid doing what I tried.Billy Graham.Bush has described his days before his religious conversion as his "nomadic" period and "irresponsible youth.Bush has said that he did not use illegal drugs at any time since 1974.He has denied the allegation (Hatfield, 1999) that family influence was used to expunge the record of an arrest for cocaine possession in 1972, and has declined to discuss whether he used drugs before 1974.In taped recordings of a conversation with an old friend, author Doug Wead, Bush said: “I wouldn’t answer the marijuana questions,” “You know why.Some Bush critics have suggested that his public statements and actions reflect a "classic addictive thinking pattern" common among former alcoholics , and one psychiatrist (Frank, 2004) wrote a book describing him as "an untreated ex-alcoholic with paranoid and megalomaniac tendencies.”  When Wead reminded Bush that the latter had publicly denied using cocaine, Bush replied, "I haven't denied anything