Rejigging our alcohol consumption can help adapt to our current situation and prepare for the challenges ahead. The easing of lockdowns is not the end or the beginning of the end. It is just, perhaps, the end of the beginning. The UK still faces the deepest depression for perhaps 300 … [Read more...] about Minimal drinking helps prepare for covid-19
Discussion: The international problem tackling mental health and alcohol issues together
A recent piece highlighting the difficulty of getting help when we have both mental health and alcohol or other substance use problems attracted insight with sources spanning from Glasgow to Tauranga. Below is a lightly-edited selection. “I'd say this isn’t ‘becoming’ the norm, I heard this in … [Read more...] about Discussion: The international problem tackling mental health and alcohol issues together
Compounding unfairness
The alcohol “unlearning curve”
Alcohol has a reverse learning curve in which greater exposure tends to lessen our intuitive understanding of it rather than improving it. Alcohol Companion and Alcohol for Nerds were written to help rectify this unlearning process. ◼️ … [Read more...] about The alcohol “unlearning curve”
The unique challenge of alcohol’s popularity
"If you are trying to change your approach alcohol and feel a bit out of place in the world, little wonder. It isn’t just you. This is alcohol’s unique challenge, which is not matched by other drugs, which do not stir such near-universal affection." … [Read more...] about The unique challenge of alcohol’s popularity
Tepid reception for industry alcohol labelling pledge
News the biggest players in the UK’s alcohol industry have agreed to put weekly drinking guidelines on their labels, a month before a government deadline to do so, has prompted little jubilation among health advocates. The Portman Group, an alcohol industry mouthpiece, dribbled out the news in a … [Read more...] about Tepid reception for industry alcohol labelling pledge