Now that the nights are drawing in and it's getting chillier, I wonder how many of us are worried about how much we drank over the summer months? Perhaps you were eagerly awaiting the start of Sober ...

The NHS estimates that just under one in 10 men in the UK and one in 20 women show signs of alcohol dependence, where they aren’t able to function properly without booze. A study by King’s College ...

Read on for tips to cut down on booze and where to seek help for your drinking LEADING public health experts have raised the alarm after “catastrophic” rise in deaths caused by drinking – and are now ...

Not long ago I had a serious drinking problem. For more than a decade I was either knocking back a bottle of wine every night or I was white-knuckling it in a stone-cold-sober phase. There was no in ...

A drinking problem does not always look like vodka for breakfast, total blackouts and an inability to hold down a job. Lots of people might be struggling with alcohol in less obvious ways – and ...

DEAR DEIDRE: MY husband was drinking for 12 hours a day so I eventually asked him to leave. I thought that would shock him into seeing what he’d lost but he says he is moving on and has dated another ...

It can be difficult if a member of your family or someone you are a carer for has a drinking problem. However, families and carers can play an important part in supporting a person who misuses alcohol ...

Alcohol-related health issues among baby boomers are on the rise. Daily drinking can start off as a social event but turn into dependency, addiction experts say. So when does social drinking become ...

As a mum of four – working as a presenter and author – I saw alcohol as my treat and reward at the end of a busy day (Picture: Supplied) It’s been two years and three months since I ditched the booze.

When Adam Winstock, founder of the Global Drug Survey, was reading through the most common reasons UK respondents gave for drinking more in lockdown, one stood out to him: “I’m rewarding myself for ...