participate in = 'partake of'

[Jonathan Lighter]

http://news.yahoo.com/first-person-dysthymia-hidden-depression-211400613.html
:

"I penned depressing, dark poems and suicidal short stories as a teenager.
Living in a small town, I participated in drugs and alcohol."

I have, unfortunately, heard this before.

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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