The very first time I drank alcohol was accidental. When I was around 6 or 7 in Scotland, my parents hosted a drinks party and I didn't actually know there was alcohol in cider, so I had five bottles.

Nerve damage is the hell that is my life. If someone would have told me last year that I would become paralyzed due to alcohol, I would have laughed in their face. Me? A healthy 24-year-old woman?

I've been sober for 10 years, but my kids saw the worst of me when I was excessively using alcohol. Because of what they saw, they made a pact to never drink alcohol. I've never sugarcoated what I ...

When I was 7 or 8 years old, my mom lost both of her parents within a very short space of time. She had always been a heavy drinker, but the death of my grandparents pushed her into alcoholism in ...

Quitting drinking alcohol was so important for my well-being and also decreases the threat of developing certain cancers, especially with Lynch syndrome. The past three years have presented me with ...

Katherine Lee/Daily. Buy this photo. A few weeks ago on my 21st birthday, a friend and I made our way to Good Time Charley’s to buy my first legal drink. We shared a fishbowl called “The Love Spell,” ...

Turns out there are actually some things that a drink can’t fix. One recent college graduate from England thought she had developed an allergy to drinking alcohol — but it turned out to be blood ...