The promise and the peril of drinking by yourself

If it makes no health or fiscal sense, why do it? There are reasons.

I was researching something this morning and came across this article on "The Sadness and Thrill of Drinking Alone." I have drank alone more times than I could possibly count, so the article was interesting to me, especially this little ditty near the late-middle portion:

The stigma attached to this drives addicts to hide our solitary bingeing from our c…