Alcoholism
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
Severin Carrell Scotland editor
05, Feb, 2024 @7:00 AM
My month in rehab: alcohol was killing me – until I made that crucial call
The crime author Cate Quinn thought she was entering rehab to tackle a nascent drink problem spurred by a family tragedy. The truth? She had never experienced adult life sober
Cate Quinn
23, Jan, 2024 @5:00 AM
Sober after years of alcoholism, I was about to drink again. Elton John saved me
My addiction had almost destroyed me – and now I was on the brink of a relapse. Then I remembered how the star had turned his own life around
Tom Cridland
15, Jan, 2024 @10:00 AM
Streaming: the best films about drinking
Be your January dry or anything but, here’s to boozing in the movies, from The Lost Weekend to Sideways, Whisky Galore! and Harvey
Guy Lodge
06, Jan, 2024 @8:00 AM
I drank to escape loneliness. But it was only when I stopped that I found the love I craved | Gunnar Ardelius
After years of reliance on alcohol, going sober was terrifying. But losing my addiction has brought unimaginable rewards, says Swedish author Gunnar Ardelius
Gunnar Ardelius
27, Dec, 2023 @7:00 AM
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