As heavy drinking increased in some households during the pandemic, dozens of state legislatures passed bills relaxing state alcohol laws, creating changes so vast that the movement is being compared to the waning days of Prohibition. Read more here.

A woman’s decision to stop drinking for one month turned into several and then a year. She says that one moment to do something different changed her life. Read more here.

Thanks to the members of the Anchorage Assembly for working hard to protect the use of alcohol tax dollars. Read more here.

In the never-ending quest for better health, many people are adding “sobriety” to their repertoire — giving up alcohol entirely, whether or not they have an addiction problem. They call it “sober curious” and tout the health benefits of their new way of life. Read more here.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson’s proposed budget is calling for changes to the alcoholic beverages retail sales tax program, including a more than $1.2 million cut from the child abuse, sexual assault, and domestic violence section. The budget proposes to cut early education grants in half, as well as $250,000 for funds directed to Victims for Justice, Abused Women’s Aid …

Alison (not her real name) was just 14 years old when she first started drinking. “It was part of my life,” she says. “I always had alcohol around me from a young age. It was just accepted.” While she started off slowly, drinking was encouraged as she grew up and again when she moved into the workplace. ‘Liquid lunches’ became …

Jennifer Pierce, a mental health clinician for Anchorage Fire Department’s Mobile Crisis Team, walks along 15th Avenue with a woman who appeared to be in emotional distress on October 1, 2021. Read more here.

Just inside the Athletic Brewing Company’s headquarters, in Stratford, Connecticut, there is a long wooden bar with a selection of non-alcoholic craft beers on tap. When I visited the brewery and public taproom on a sunny afternoon in June, during our fleeting summer of freedom before the emergence of the Delta variant, I could smell the hops—the flowers that give beer …

I started experimenting with alcohol when I was 13. Unlike most teenagers who start with beer or wine, I went straight to the hard stuff: vodka. I’d sneak sips out of my mom’s alcohol cupboard, loving the woozy sensation after a couple of gulps. When I was 14, my grandmother died. And the night before her funeral, I got drunk …