Idiot Alcoholics: Cambridge students celebrate 'Suicide Sunday' with binge drinking

'The way the students were behaving was absolutely disgusting,' said one passer-by. 'It was only midday on Sunday and there were lots of families and young people around enjoying the sunshine.

'The students were lying across the verges, lots of them were vomiting and they were singing rowdy drinking songs.

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Every day, millions of Americans gather in church basements and community meeting rooms to take turns announcing, "Hi, I'm X and I'm a Y addict."

The practice seems simple, and in a sense it is. Since Bill W. founded Alcoholics Anonymous back in the 1930s, the participants in various 12-step programs have reached a reasonably clear consensus on what "the program" is and how to work it.

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Source: salon.com