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What's Normal Drinking Anyway?
How I've Learned in Sobriety to Not Take Myself Too Seriously
How to be a Recovering Girl in an Unrecovered World
My Alcoholism Isn't Your Problem-- Or Is It?
The Friend Who Helps You Justify Drinking Too Much
What It's Like to Not Black out over the Holidays
I Never Broke My Anonymity Because I Was Never Anonymous
What I Wished I'd Known When I Was New to Sobriety
Alcoholism: The Ever-Present Elephant in the Room
Our Culture Profits From Addiction
Breaking Up With The Love of my Life: Alcohol
Talking to My 11-year-old Nephew About Alcoholism
4 Things I Never Want to Forget About Active Addiction
What the F Is Wrong with Parents Who Buy Booze for Their Kids
Grieving My Brother's Death in Sobriety
How to Know When You've Reached Bottom
How To Be Sober But Not Boring
Saying Goodbye to My Former Best Friends
I Give Grace Because I Need Grace
What Do You Mean I Have to Date Without Drinking?
Tribute: 7 Years Ago, Heath Ledger Died
4 Reasons Why It's Great to be Sober during the Super Bowl
I Don't Need A New Year--Just A New Day
I'm Pretty Sure The Grinch Is A Dry Drunk
Holiday Drinking: Starts Classy, Ends Trashy
5 Reason You Want a Sober Person at Your Holiday Party
Lowering My Standards to Match My Behavior
I Got Sober When the Pain of Staying the Same Was Greater Than the Fear of Changing
An Open Letter to Parents About Your Relationship to Alcohol
My Letter to 25 Local Drug Dealers
Harroin? Really? Addicted to Ignorance, Not Style
From Pain to Purpose in Two Years
Sobriety: My Joyful Second Act
When Did Alcohol Become A Part of Everything We Do?
Letter To My Brother Six Feet Under
To Everyone Still Suffering, I Am You
My Drug and Alcohol History Reads Like a Sad Handwritten Book
'When I Grow Up, I Want to Be an Alcoholic,' Says No One Ever