
My dark romance with alcohol all started when I took a job at my grandfather's bar. I'd like to tell you I was a saint and never touched the devil-juice until I was twenty one but I'd be lying, and liars don't make good saints.
Should the Drinking Age Be Lowered? Source: TIME
Every year around this time, millions of American kids graduate from high school, throw massive parties and get drunk. Police end up arresting a lot of these kids, causing them legal trouble for months or even years.

I remember walking on eggshells. I remember the fear of saying the wrong thing that may begin another spiral of nightly drinking.

After several messages of friends online asking "How do I help an alcoholic friend stop drinking?" I knew, then, I needed to do something. Therefore, I am going to offer some suggestions.
Tom Waits, Off BeatSource: Guardian Unlimited
For years, he was the booze-soaked bard of the barstool, the keeper of 'a bad liver and a broken heart'. But Tom Waits was saved by his wife, hasn't had a drink for more than a decade and, at 56, is making the music of his life