Dry run: How local and national attitudes toward alcohol are changing
Mixed drinks are displayed at a bar in Baltimore. (Julio Cortez/AP file)
Last year, 38-year-old local attorney Laura Gates decided to give up drinking alcohol for Dry January.
She’s been sober ever since.
Each year, millions of Americans start the New Year sober for Dry January, an annual 31-day challenge in which participants don’t drink any alcohol. Launched in 2013 by a UK-based charity, it has since grown in popularity.
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Aisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki has spent the better part of two decades writing about Memphis. A former digital journalist for WMC Action News 5 and staff reporter for Memphis Daily News, her work has also appeared in The Commercial Appeal, High Ground News, I Love Memphis, Inside Memphis Business, The Memphis Flyer, Memphis Parent, Memphis Magazine and Tri-State Defender.
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