As soon as you hear the words ‘teenage alcohol abuse’ you are inundated with images regularly seen on television of young people drinking too much alcohol. A quick search on the internet will tell you that a lot has been written on the subject. Scientific studies, cold facts and health risks due to alcohol consumption [...]
Read More...Monday Everything was clean when I got home. The carpet hoovered, the tiles mopped and the dishes done. A pleasant smell of incense drifted from the side table into the room. He smiled but one of his eyes was slightly hanging and both looked watery and red. The stench of alcohol hung in the air, [...]
Read More...How Weird Was That? With no real idea where the thought came from, no feelings of doubt or reservation and with my former serious scepticism mysteriously absent, the decision came to me to go to my first ever Alcoholic Anonymous meeting. I am still trying to get my head around exactly how and why (now) [...]
Read More...Alcohol and depression, two words that I have heard in the same sentence over and over again. I have interviewed many recovering alcoholics and there seemed to be one common experience. They all felt that alcohol was a depressant. It was compared to the ‘chicken and egg’ story. What comes first, the alcohol or the [...]
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