Barack Obama gets candid about his mis-spent youth: There were times when I, you know, got into drinking, experimented with drugs.
As tempted as I was to enter into this drinking experiment, I finally decided to go for the takoyaki.
On the second day of my drinking experiment, the elixir tasted completely different.
I got together with six scientists and we did a controlled drinking experiment over the course of seven days, for which I got increasingly drunk and made art.
Smoking, drinking, experimenting with the thrills of asking for dates, actually going on dates (when parents permit), holding hands, hugging, kissing and deciding your approach to love, expressing your new found state of being a teen... Balancing all these aspects is what normal teenagers confront in their everyday lives.
She begins drinking and experiments with mixing vodka and antidepressants.
The diversions are finite: friendly security guards, tiny paper cones to fill with drinking water, experiments with overcaffeination, a range of routes to one's locker for squares of extremely dark chocolate, or, my own peculiar fetish, wooden coffee-stirrers which I chew for concentration, carefully gathering the soggy splinters from my desk before leaving.
After a brief consultation with the registrar (a famous name in British alcohol studies, who was then touting a "controlled drinking" field experiment), I was referred to one of his juniors.
This includes going to parties, drinking and experimenting with dating and sexual behavior.
For this kind of "graduated drinking license" experiment to work, the supervising adults would really need to supervise -- and would really need to understand the issues and implications around alcohol.
