Are You Drinking Too Much? Depends on Whether You Ask the CDC,
NIAAA, or Smashed.  Health and medicine explained. Oct. 12 2012
12:44 PM  How Much Drinking Is Too Much Drinking?  Smashed is
the best movie yet about our relationship with alcohol.   People
drinking at a bar. How many drinks are OK? How many on a week
night? In a weekend? In a week?  Photograph by Hemera
Technologies/AbleStock/Thinkstock.  Throughout my childhood, the
same 12 bottles of liquor populated our pantry, gathering dust
and cobwebs, buried beneath a shifting stock of Canada Dry (my
father’s favorite tipple), cereal boxes, and canned goods. Then
I turned 16 and realized what the stuff in those musty old
bottles was good for. By the time I was through carefully
replacing the volume of what I stole with water, the contents
would have frozen instantly had the bottles even been placed in
the same room as the refrigerator.  Ever since those midnight
raids on my parent’s rapidly diluted liquor supply, I’ve enjoyed
a good drink. OK, drinks. My