Not the usual fluff
I just discovered your website via a link from the "This is True" newsletter.
Doug, you have a great thing going here. The hard and measured style is such a welcome change from the self-serving fluff usually found in the media on this subject.
I've been sober since 1993.
I come from a family that (as the joke could go) put the 'dys' in dysfunction. Both my sisters and I began drinking in high school: not on a daily basis, but never just to get a buzz; always to get plastered.
I mostly drank just to feel comfortable in my own skin. Does that make sense? The emotional abuse was pretty cutting and nearly constant, so the booze would help drive ...
