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...saga of the First Twins is fated to play on a while longer, now that Jenna Bush, 19, has decided to fight charges that she tried to buy liquor with someone else's ID at an Austin restaurant last month. Caught with a margarita at the same haunt, her sister Barbara pleaded no contest last week and will do eight hours of community service. While the President and his wife quietly grappled with how to manage their wayward children (it's Jenna's second citation), baby-boomer parents across the country had to wonder: If the First Daughters could...
...university measured a 21% drop in high-risk drinking, which is imbibing five or more drinks in a sitting on a weekly basis."That's a massive reduction when nationally those levels were flat or increasing slightly," says Perkins. The incidence of missed classes, unprotected sex, property damage and liquor-law violations also decreased...
...Alex, 20, a recovering alcoholic who got sober in 1998, says his first meeting was with only four other members, straight from central casting - grizzled old men with decades of stories about life in the gutter. "They would talk about running liquor during prohibition," he says. "I thought my life was over. I was never going to have fun again. I was going to sit around with old guys, smoking and drinking coffee for the rest of my life." Now, he says, "I walk in and I see people my age, younger, and they're all laughing and having...
...time I was 15 I always kept liquor in the sock drawer and I was drinking alone. I didn't want to have to share, I didn't want to have to deal with other people. By the end of that year, I was drinking hard alcohol five or six days a week. I started to steal to pay for it, money, things to pawn. I never stole from my family. By the time I was 17, I dropped out of school, I had my own apartment. I'd wake up around noon, and drink bourbon and coffee, in that...
...drinking weekly, every other week, daily if I could. My parents quit buying wine, but I had older sisters who visited from college and they would always bring me whatever they had left over. In high school, we either stole alcohol from the liquor store or we found people to buy it for us. Every alcoholic is resourceful...