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
Video: Meet the 170-year-old sobriety movement
The current wave of attention might make it seem like tackling alcohol harm is a new thing, but far from it. Movendi International has been working in the area for nigh-on 170 years, with a name change from IOGT last month the latest evolution. Its president Katarina Sperkova talks with me here … [Read more...] about Video: Meet the 170-year-old sobriety movement
The personal story conundrum
As someone writing about alcohol I am often asked to tell my own story. I find it very difficult to know how to respond. It is not that I don’t have one. I do. I even wrote it down once. But it is never the right moment to tell it. Lived experiences make a huge contribution to the discussion … [Read more...] about The personal story conundrum
Get off the beaten path
A rewarding experience need not be about being in an awesome location. It can be about connecting to where we are, wherever it might be. Seen in the right way, stumbling along the bank of a stream behind the local supermarket can rival the Inca trail to Machu Picchu. This is the promise of … [Read more...] about Get off the beaten path
Alcohol Review – issue 93, July 22nd 2023
Find this service useful?Please join the Alcohol Review's supporters who make it possible *For alcohol books and resources, visit the homepage* This week: US alcohol death surge rolled on; More US states allow teenage bartenders; Alice Springs' restrictions prolonged; French tax … [Read more...] about Alcohol Review – issue 93, July 22nd 2023
Why are we paying so much for alcohol-free drinks that aren’t taxed?
Image Shutterstock by Cameron Shackell, Queensland University of Technology Dry July, an Australian fundraising campaign to support people affected by cancer, is almost here again. The premise is that abstaining from booze and hangovers for a month frees up money to donate. But with prices in the … [Read more...] about Why are we paying so much for alcohol-free drinks that aren’t taxed?