Tag: alcohol

For 50 years, Enthusiastic Sobriety programs have offered to help teenagers kick drugs and alcohol. But former followers say ES doesn’t save lives—it destroys them.

“But there’s nothing wrong with a nudge toward examining the difference between what makes us happy and what is merely habitual.”

A reading list on alcoholism, for both the hopeful and the cynical.

Chris Heath at GQ interviews nine sober musicians on thriving creatively.

“If I couldn’t find humor in sobriety, I probably wouldn’t make it.”

Leslie Jamison remembers Amy Winehouse, who passed away nine years ago in Camden, London, at age 27.

Katie MacBride recalls her last days using alcohol before getting sober.

The alcohol epidemic devastated Native American communities, leading to crippling poverty, astonishingly high mortality rates — and a successful sobriety movement.

Alexander Chee got sick the first time he drank gin. We’re glad he persevered.

Andrew Curry’s thorough history of our relationship to and use of alcohol is informative, enlightening, and just plain entertaining.

Is it really that hard, being a First World woman? Is it really so tough to have the career and the spouse and the pets and the herb garden and the core strengthening and the oh-I-just-woke-up-like-this makeup and the face injections and the Uber driver who might possibly be a rapist? Is it so hard […]

Mitch Moxley writes in California Sunday magazine about baijiu, China’s national drink.

My alcohol story seems like a non-story: I grew up in a home of teetotalers.

The weisswurst frühstück Obama was enjoying is a beery Bavarian stalwart: boiled sausages with mustard, freshly baked pretzels and a cold weissbier, the operative word here being cold. Alcohol in the morning must be fresh and zippy. A bit of fizz, something dry, a hint of sweetness, a sharp kick – as drinks writer Henry Jeffreys puts […]

“You can still see Russia’s drinking problem everywhere—in its cities and especially in its rural, less populated provinces. A 2011 report from the World Health Organization estimated that Russians were drinking an average of about 4 gallons of pure alcohol per year—about 70 percent more than their American counterparts. In 2009, the British medical journal […]