Let me put it plainly. For over thirty years, I was addicted to a legalised, government-sanctioned drug: alcohol . I drank. I paid taxes....

That jolt—when aluminium hits an old filling and sends a zing through your jaw? Yeah, that wasn’t just your imagination. And no, it...

There’s a lyric in R.E.M.’s E-Bow the Letter that’s always stuck with me: “Aluminum… tastes like fear.” When I first heard it, I didn’t...