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See the necklace pictured above? Surprise, it’s a vibrator.

On a stretch of Austin’s eastside that features a popcorn cafe, vintage store, vegetarian soul food restaurant, and the city’s oldest black-owned barbecue joint, Chris Marshall has a drink waiting for me at his bar. And by drink, I mean not quite a drink. It’s a Rosemary and Ginger Mule. There’s no alcohol. There’s never alcohol in here.  

There are more than 50m problem drinkers in this country—people who binge drink or regularly harm themselves or others by overindulging. Yet only 1m of those people seek treatment for alcohol dependence.

The famous startup investor Paul Graham once said he could tell who was a winner with one simple question: Could you describe the person as an animal?