There’s a long tradition of parents rubbing whiskey on their babies’ gums to soothe teething pain. Pediatricians don’t recommend it, but it seems like American adults survived it relatively unscathed. Putting booze in a baby’s bottle, though, is a whole other thing.

A Virginia woman arrested after having afternoon sex in a parking lot with her unconscious boyfriend told the local news the alcohol just made her really horny.

A New York City woman bragged about her whiskey-infused rooftop escapades on Instagram just a week before she drunkenly fell to her death, police say.

What sort of people tend to die from alcohol poisoning? If you said "idiot college students," shut up—you're wrong, and drunk.

Happy New Year! I bet you feel like shit.

American icon A Handle of Fireball Strapped to a GoPro was the most popular guest at a debauched wedding earlier this year, and now guess who's coming to Christmas? That's correct, it is A Handle of Fireball Strapped to a GoPro. Deck the halls with mounds of vomit.

It took a dozen police officers to calm down a drunken Australian wedding celebration that ended with the bride in the hospital and the groom and best man under arrest Friday.

Based upon beer and liquor company advertising, you might imagine that the US booze industry primarily sells its products to suave, attractive 20-somethings on the beach. In fact, it primarily sells its products to alcoholics.

Bourbon: no longer the drink of choice for just wild west gunslingers and Southern gentlemen. According to a report in the Associated Press, bourbon is the current de rigueur drink for Americans (and drinkers abroad), causing a boom in sales for bourbon distilleries in the billions of dollars a year.

According to a newly released decades-long study of thousands of Americans found that people who qualify as heavy drinkers... well, it said something about them, I'm fairly sure of that.

No disrespect to people in foreign countries, but they are approximately the world's biggest suckers, when it comes to believing things about America. No, all Americans are not cowboys; we don't all own guns, and work at Disney Land; and we certainly don't make any good wine.

Ex-Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar used to fancy himself a bona fide tequila purveyor, but has since shed the shackles of the priced-out alcohol in favor of a new boozy solvent. "It's so pure," Hagar told the Associated Press, raising the question: is rum the new tequila?

Russians might be stereotyped as alcoholics, but according to a recent study by Euromonitor, it's actually South Koreans who drink the most. In a metric worthy of Jersey Shore, the study found that Koreans consume around 14 shots of liquor a week while Russians pound just 6. Laaaame.

Alcohol plays a large role in everyone's life. We use it to clean our many wounds, and we add certain percentages of the stuff to our gasoline, within certain states where that's required by regulations. Some of us even drink alcohol, for pleasure or otherwise. But you can count me out of that last group. For all of this year, so far, I have been "on the wagon."

Just in time for cold season, a new study reveals that moderate drinking can boost the immune system. We trust you'll use this information wisely come New Year's Eve.

Important new research proves that drinking lots and lots of wine every week makes men have "stronger sperm." This means the sperm is more likely to reach its "goal," which is some part of a lady, if the sperm was ejaculated in the general direction of a lady.

Crack-smoking Toronto mayor Rob Ford told CBC last night that he's giving up alcohol. Wait, really? Well, he says it's been three weeks since his last drink. Of being stripped of most of his mayoral powers, he said he "had a come-to-Jesus moment" and won't consume alcohol again.

When you're a drunk college student, $30 in exchange for punching a hole through an IKEA coffee table with your head sounds like a good deal.

For ages, dreamers, alchemists, mixologists and other enthusiasts have fantasized about a better world—a world where drunkenness wasn't accompanied by hangover, nausea or liver damage. Now, one scientist says he can make that dream a reality. Behold: the age of the "alcohol substitute" is at hand.

"I drink gin, and once, when drinking gin, I made a large man cry." Bill Murray, who only made $9,000 for Rushmore, continues to be amazing.