Susan Cheever
Many efforts went into reducing drunk driving. This success may have something vital to teach us about controlling addiction. Someone should figure out what it is. MORE
Bill Moyers and his family were onstage with me to discuss coming through the hell of addiction to the health and hope of recovery. Suddenly, a desperate cry for help came from the audience. MORE
AA has now spawned some 50 other 12-step programs for different substances and behaviors. Would its famous founder embrace this bountiful brood or disown many of them? MORE
Violent crime has intractable causes like poverty, drugs and guns. But one cause—the number of businesses selling booze in a neighborhood—could be directly controlled. Should it be? MORE
When Christopher Kennedy Lawford and cousin Patrick Kennedy, two ex-addicts from America's most famous family, sit down to discuss Lawford's exhaustive new book about addiction, they aren't afraid to make it personal. MORE
High-functioning alcoholics are often hiding in plain sight—and they're often more dangerous than drop-dead drunks. MORE
Booze is implicated in many more major news stories than the press ever acknowledges, from party politics to bloody mayhem. Why the silence? MORE
Born behind the bar in his family's big red inn—117 years ago this week—Wilson's Vermont youth wasn't exactly bucolic. His encounters with early adversity show how the child was father to the man. MORE
The story of how one of AA's most famous slogans—"contempt before investigation"—took a long series of wrong turns to end up in the right place. MORE
The media is continually treating us to research touting "new," "promising," even "breakthrough" knowledge. But do they really deliver? MORE
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With the government turning a blind eye to a growing "national disaster," religious groups put aside their differences to help.
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Paul Kelly is sentenced to 13 years for helping run a major heroin ring in Liverpool, England.
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The actor says drinking to cope with his split from Vanessa Paradis "could have been fatal."
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Moderate drinking during pregnancy may not hurt the baby, US adult smoking rate dips to 18%, and Miley Cyrus says marijuana is way safer than booze.
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This graphic shows which nations hit which hard liquors the hardest, fueling some stereotypes and confounding others.
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