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Alcoholism

The latest news and comment on alcoholism

February 2023

  • Dusk falls over the town of Alice Springs, Australia

    Indigenous investigations
    ‘We have to come together’: alcohol bans alone won’t fix Alice Springs’ problems

  • Devi Sridhar

    Cheers to getting through Dry January. Moderation over bingeing should be our next goal

    Devi Sridhar

January 2023

  • Half empty glasses and bottles of alcoholic drinks in a pub

    Doctors in England and Wales urged to monitor people’s drinking habits

  • Adrian Chiles

    I’m not one for conspiracy theories – but why do pubs hide their low-alcohol options?

    Adrian Chiles
  • Sharon Hartley

    ‘I jumped off the hangover hamster wheel’: midlife drinkers who gave up booze – and got happy

  • Jack Monroe shot from above in a roll-top bath filled with copper coins on a black and white tiled floor

    ‘I’ve heard it all: she’s a fraud, a liar, a thief’: Jack Monroe on alcohol, addiction and answering her critics

  • I became the poster girl for sobriety, then returned to big nights on the lash

  • Victorian court allows abused altar boy’s children and wife to sue Catholic church

  • So you decided to stop drinking? I did - and these are my year’s lessons

December 2022

  • two pints on a bar table

    Ketamine plus therapy could help treat alcoholism, say researchers

    Trial led by Exeter University psychologist to look at how adding psychedelics to therapy could make it more effective
  • Group therapy room

    The modern mind
    Why do so many drug and alcohol addicts relapse? The answers are complex

    Diane Young
    It’s important for patients to know past relapses don’t define you, and ongoing help from professionals and friends is critical to recovery
  • ‘The faces of those participating are digitally altered, thus maintaining anonymity’ … I’m an Alcoholic: Inside Recovery (BBC Two). Photograph: BBC/Daisybeck

    TV review
    I’m An Alcoholic: Inside Recovery review – the first ever peek inside an AA meeting is hugely moving

    This candid chronicle of an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting is sensitive, impeccably balanced – and incredibly uplifting

November 2022

  • Adrian Chiles

    I used to go to great lengths for a drink before a football match. But there is joy to be had without booze

    Adrian Chiles
  • A man drinking a pint of beer

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: How I let drinking take over my life – podcast

  • Jogging Through Forest in Springtime<br>Back View of Woman Running Alone in Woodland low perspective

    Ask Philippa
    I’m now sober, but feel guilty about a friend I’ve left behind

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    TV review
    A House Made of Splinters review – this extraordinary film about Ukrainian kids is almost too hard to bear

  • Like the air I breathed, alcohol was unquestioned in my life. I gave it up but still felt pressure to drink

    Briony Whitton
  • Book of the day
    Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry review – the one with the rich and famous addict

October 2022

  • Adrian Chiles

    Grandma had just died and I was far from home. Then I had a drink – and the pain vanished

    Adrian Chiles
  • Churchill Room Bar on the terrace of the Commons

    Ministers and MPs drinking too much due to work pressures, Tory MP claims

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