ALCOHOLISM
Learning to Have Sober Sex Was More Complicated Than Just 'Being Present'
I thought alcohol helped me enjoy myself and let go, until I realized I’d never actually learned to do either.
Eating a Ton of Candy Helps Me Stay Sober
No one tells you that a big part of quitting drinking can be incessantly craving sugar.
How Getting Sober Finally Made Me Cool
I worried that my decision to stop drinking meant trading in my identity as a Fun Person to become a bummer. Instead, my world got bigger.
How to Party at Pride If You're Sober
Mental preparation is just as important as a backpack full of seltzer.
Female Alcoholics are Rare in Myanmar. This Young Artist is One of Them.
Yangon Artist Bay Bay uses her art to let people enter her alcohol-fueled mind.
Man Who Got So Drunk He Grounded Plane Ordered to Pay for Fuel
The 44-year-old British man has to pay WestJet nearly $22,000.
Running Away From Drinking Myself to Death
On grief, morning runs, and not getting drunk to late-night news broadcasts alone anymore.
People In Cold Places Drink More, Study Finds
“Alcohol is a vasodilator—meaning it increases the flow of warm blood to the skin. Booze quite literally makes you feel warmer."
Inside the Segregated Pubs of Outback Australia
They're called "animal bars" and they're unbelievably wrong.
How I Quit Drinking in a World That Wants Me Drunk
We're taught from an early age that drinking is cool and glamorous. We have to learn for ourselves that it's not.
Hannibal Buress On Quitting Drinking to End the ‘Messy Shit’
Why the comedian is trying to do things differently.