Whether you're on it, off it, or somewhere in between
Valentine’s Day is a divisive holiday and I understand why some people hate it. Whether you’re coupled or uncoupled, sober or active, it can stir up uncomfortable emotions around all kinds of relationships — including toxic ones. My most toxic relationship was the one I had with alcohol and sometimes it’s helpful for me to […]
If you are anything like us at The Wagon, you love a good documentary. Here, we share four great documentaries about substance use disorders and the ensuing, devastating consequences. There’s Something Wrong with Aunt Diane In the summer of 2009, 36-year-old Diane Schuler drove the wrong […]
It’s the typical trope — a bunch of people in an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting drinking cup after cup of coffee. It seems that the moment someone gets sober, a cup of coffee magically materializes in their hand. Is the coffee and sobriety stereotype actually true? Or am I under the spell of a common recovery […]
When I was drinking, especially towards the end, the quality of the spirits I imbibed was of little meaning to me. Sure, I loved fancy Manhattans and very dirty Ketel One martinis, but at the end of the day, a cheap bottle of any vodka worked just fine. All I really needed was a chilled […]
It’s funny, I once heard someone say how there are literally hundreds of words for the term “drunk” (smashed, sloshed, over-served, sauced, wasted, tipsy, tanked — you get the idea), but only one word for not being drunk — sober. And that kind of sucks, because the word “sober” doesn’t imply fun and frivolity.