A deeper dive behind the ‘Exploring Addiction’ series What rationalism did for witches, psychology has done for alcoholics — saved many souls from the baying crowd. We’ve been drinking for as long as we’ve been human. Alcohol predates recorded history, woven into ritual, celebration, and everyday life across every culture. But for most of that history, the person who couldn’t stop drinking was met not with compassion, but with contempt. They were weak. Sinful. A drain on soci