Alcoholism

I spent 22 years as a problem drinker. Here are 10 things I’ve learned since I quit

Having turned my back on the partying, hangovers and self-destruction, I’ve slowly worked out what was behind them – and how to replace them with something better

Matthew Todd

30, Apr, 2024 @9:00 AM

Britain has a problem that it won’t face up to: children's dangerous relationship with alcohol | Gary Nunn

With young people in the UK far more likely to drink than those in other countries, it’s clear: we are a nation in denial, says journalist Gary Nunn

Gary Nunn

29, Apr, 2024 @1:17 PM

‘I know my limit’: how gen Z became Britain’s ‘sober-curious’ generation

As many as 28% of young adults in the UK do not drink. Here, three of them explain why their relationship with alcohol has changed

Aneesa Ahmed

28, Apr, 2024 @11:00 AM

It’s 20 years since the UK hit ‘peak booze’. The hangover is still with us

A devil-may-care culture led to the UK’s highest drinking rates. Are we now paying the price for years of excess?

David Hillier

27, Apr, 2024 @2:51 PM

Great Britain has worst rate of child alcohol consumption in world, report finds

Study by World Health Organization shows more than half of children had drunk alcohol by age 13

Tobi Thomas Health and inequalities correspondent

25, Apr, 2024 @5:00 AM

It’s a grotesque insult for Back to Black to suggest Amy Winehouse died of heartache over her childlessness | Laura Snapes

Sam Taylor-Johnson’s biopic suggests that the singer’s desire for a baby was the main source of her suffering. It’s a gendered simplification that exonerates the forces that killed her

Laura Snapes

12, Apr, 2024 @9:00 AM

I stopped drinking three months ago – it’s not as simple as the internet makes it look | Ashe Davenport

Influencer sobriety is a world where alcohol addiction is history, but it’s all too neat

Ashe Davenport

29, Mar, 2024 @11:00 PM

The Dry season two review – throw all the awards at this comedy!

Dense, clever, sad, deeply funny: this immaculately plotted Irish comedy drama about rebuilding life in the wake of tragedy and addiction is a supreme achievement

Lucy Mangan

14, Mar, 2024 @1:00 PM

Paul Gascoigne says he is a ‘sad drunk’ and lives in his agent’s spare room

The former England midfielder Paul Gascoigne has described himself as a ‘sad drunk’ reduced to living in his agent’s spare room

Paul MacInnes

06, Mar, 2024 @1:19 PM

Sloshed, plastered and gazeboed: why Britons have 546 words for drunkenness

Combine ribald humour with peculiar sentence construction and a genuinely horrifying drinking culture, and what do you get? A dictionary’s worth of ‘drunkonyms’

20, Feb, 2024 @1:25 PM

Scotland raises minimum alcohol prices by almost one third

Minimum price of bottle of whisky set at £18.20 as ministers mull health tax to retrieve higher revenue from shops

Severin Carrell Scotland editor

08, Feb, 2024 @7:29 PM

Scotland expected to raise minimum alcohol price by 30%

Health campaigners will welcome new unit rate of 65p, which will push bottle of whisky to at least £18.20