Alcoholism

Bill W.

Boozehounds More Likely to Croak at Early Age

A team of scientists has recently given alcoholics another excuse not to seek help. Swedish researchers claim to have found a genetic link between alcoholism and premature death, according to a recently released report. Alcoholics everywhere have reacted positively to the research, since it sugg ... More >>

Women Have Finally Discovered Booze

​Back in the old days, before gender equality and such things, women who drank excessively were considered untoward, ill sots, the kind you wouldn't bring home to your mother, who only had a small sip of sherry when feeling poorly and then spat it out immediately. But today, the world has embr ... More >>

Kids With Cool Parents More Likely to Be Lushes Later On (Study)

​A new study out of the University of Minnesota claims that kids whose parents allow them to drink moderately in their presence are actually more likely to develop drinking problems later in life. This goes against the relatively common perception that uber-strict parents with zero tolerance polic ... More >>

Today in El Diario: Alcohol's Deadly Toll

​Drowning in drink New Yorkers drink a lot, so there's always a steady stream of hospitalizations and emergency room visits because of booze, and some of the city's immigrant communities are leading the way, according to the Spanish-language daily. In 2009, alcohol led to 70,000 emergency room ... More >>

A Big Hand for Paprika Steen in Applause

​Drowning in drink New Yorkers drink a lot, so there's always a steady stream of hospitalizations and emergency room visits because of booze, and some of the city's immigrant communities are leading the way, according to the Spanish-language daily. In 2009, alcohol led to 70,000 emergency room ... More >>

THE NEXT BIG THING?

Free readings of 14 new plays

ANIMAL PLANET

Furry critters star in David Sedaris’s new collection

Drink Booze for Life!

​Happy Monday. Assuming you have valid ID, it's time to get your drink on. And while we usually mean that when we say it, today we mean it especially. Because there's a new paper in a journal called Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research (fun read!) which suggests that abstaining from ... More >>

Boozers Have the Best Vocabularies

​You may remember "If You're an Educated Woman, You Probably Have a Drinking Problem" -- unless you're too educated (or drunk) to remember it. Now we've found the brilliant "People of Class Drink Alcohol" from Discover -- yeah, a science magazine -- in which author Razib Khan crunches the numb ... More >>

If You're an Educated Woman, You Probably Have a Drinking Problem

​Seems like these studies come out every week or so just to freak us out (or in the case of this one about well-educated women being "problem drinkers," confirm something we kinda already knew). But, since we did go to college, and since we do enjoy an adult beverage now and again, and since i ... More >>

Sexual Addiction Can Really Get Out of Hand

A friend of mine told me that his ex is so sexually addicted that, once he tried recovery, he couldn't even masturbate for fear that it would launch him back into his horndog mania! Taking a hand to himself would be equivalent to a recovering alcoholic grabbing just a tiny sip of champagne--i.e., a ... More >>

The East Village Braces Itself for a New Bar in Bad Taste: The 13th Step

Taunting recovering alcoholics since 2010.​Alcoholics Anonymous describes the "13th step" as a "euphemism for inappropriate sexual advances by a member to a newcomer in AA (such as sponsors toward sponsees)." Also used as a verb, "thirteenth stepping" is never seen as a good thing. And so, it' ... More >>

LIFE IN BLACK AND WHITE

Photographs 50 years in the making

Live: David Bazan Preaches/Blasphemes At Pianos

Serenading New Hampshire. David Bazan Pianos Tuesday, Sept. 1 No one writes better -- or angrier -- songs about God than David Bazan, slow-core sad-sack mastermind of Pedro the Lion and various solo escapades, his calm, gorgeously bitter baritone enunciating every syllable of every word with perf ... More >>

TICKET TO RIDE

Latin film fest gets gritty and real

NERD TALK

A five-night stand with Art Brut

Playwright Christopher Durang Braves a Voice Inquisition

A five-night stand with Art Brut

Broker Fails to Get Richies Drunk Enough to Buy Apartments

A five-night stand with Art Brut

Eminem's Mother Reveals She's Not Kim Basinger!

A five-night stand with Art Brut

GOAT, RESPLENDENT

The Mountain Goats summit in Manhattan

Puppy Love

The Mighty Chihuahua, and Mexicans Can Hold Their Liquor

Mexicans and their DUI's: One More Corona for the Road!

The stats don't lie

A Sobering Plan to End Subway Alcohol Advertising

The stats don't lie

Self-Medicated

The stats don't lie

The Twelfth Step

A sober drama about the birth of AA

'Factotum'

A sober drama about the birth of AA

Ed's Not Dead

Hammell on Trial makes a good living getting punk from an acoustic guitar

Tales of Ordinary Madness: Remembering the Dirty Old Man

Hammell on Trial makes a good living getting punk from an acoustic guitar

More Than 'Just Say No'

Addiction studies thrives in academia

Stand-Up Rehab

Recovering addict Mark Lundholm works his solo program

A Love Supreme

The Fallen Fire Chaplain Was Also a Hero to Gays

Letters

The Fallen Fire Chaplain Was Also a Hero to Gays

Labor’s Loneliest Battles

New Survey Finds Union Self-Help Programs Point Way in Addiction Struggles

Letters

New Survey Finds Union Self-Help Programs Point Way in Addiction Struggles

Letters

New Survey Finds Union Self-Help Programs Point Way in Addiction Struggles

AA Unmasked

The Premier 12-Step Program Has a Killer Drug Problem

Sibling Ribaldry

The Premier 12-Step Program Has a Killer Drug Problem

Avoiding the Rush

Can the Giants’ Kerry Collins Continue to Sidestep the Big Apple Media Blitz?

NY Mirror

Can the Giants’ Kerry Collins Continue to Sidestep the Big Apple Media Blitz?

Welfare Policy Relapse

City Just Says No to Poor Addicts