Recovering Roundup

Week of January 17, 2022

Jan 17, 2022

This is a new feature I’m trying out, mostly because I collect articles like my mom collects turtle figurines and they tend to do little more than sit in a very long Google spreadsheet that dates back to 2014.

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“America’s first prohibitionists were actually its first people.” A new book on prohibition reveals its anti-colonialist roots and it’s breaking my brain a little.

Huge surprise: science finds hangover “cures” don’t work; “"For now, the surest way of preventing hangover symptoms is to abstain from alcohol or drink in moderation."

“The Impossible Year”: A gorgeous, honest piece of writing by one of my all-time favorite writers Sarah Hepola, on being a decade sober in 2021 and how fucking excruciating it all is.

Haley Nahman on incongruence and the gap between the real and ideal self; “This is the internet: It feels real until you back away, and then it feels kind of like nothing.”

Yet another study revealing the correlation between alcohol consumption and breast cancer, this one focusing on postdiagnosis and breast cancer recurrence. Oh, and we still don’t have warnings on bottles.

Study finds positive correlation between excessive drinking and excessive exercise, which feels obvious because of dopamine? IDK.

Bon Appetit tells us about alcohol related acne and Vogue helps us understand what ethanol does to our skin care regimen and I want to write an article that says “just don’t fucking drink it”

We’re dying from addiction and overdose at record rates and still debating Harm Reduction

Non-alcoholic Corona with Vitamin D is very 2022, and very Big Alcohol

Speaking of supporting the drinks industry, here’s a list of 20 NA beers

Sober Tik-Tok makes me want to get on Tik-Tok

“What I Wish Someone Had Said to Me When I Started Using Drugs”

Another study aggregating the short and longterm consequences of Pandemic Drinking

Refinery29 did a weeklong series on alcohol

Another not surprising thing at all: Hollywood gets portraying AUD wrong, again

why

A long list of book recommendations from A Writer I Really Like

“I cannot stop giving thanks for all that I thought might kill me”

New study reveals “people with severe alcohol dependence were able to stay off booze for longer when they were treated with low doses of ketamine combined with psychological therapy, and Melissa Urban, who is in recovery, reveals she used Ketamine for depression (if you can’t hear my claps from the woods for her honesty and bravery, imagine them)

Another article reminding us we’re supposed to drink when shit is hard

Another study about alcohol, cancer, and warning labels

25% more Wisconsonites died from excessive drinking in 2020 (that’s a staggering increase)

Our collective death wish is growing; “I feel like people are acting like they do on the internet. But in person.”

A reminder that any change is good change; any awareness is good awareness

Why is this still a controversial stance and why do we need doctors to co-sign it; plus, new addiction book alert

“And I wonder if by assuming growth is always the goal, we become too fixated on measuring our progress (or berating our lack of it), when we could be assessing our rhythm. Our ability to not just accept but embrace the animating tension of our shifting wants, needs, and abilities.”

Okay I’m definitely, slightly, maybe a little on a Haley Nahman kick. “I don’t think it’s a coincidence that modern self-improvement discourse bifurcates behaviors along similar, i.e. moralizing, lines: You’re either doing well or slipping up.”

Saddened, not surprised