What happens when keeping a record of your gratitude becomes a task that makes you feel ungrateful?

If the alcohol industry is perfectly aware of how many people will drink irresponsibly (one in four adults in this country drink hazardously) then why aren’t they doing anything more to mitigate this risk?

A few drinks with friends is one of the great pleasures of life, until it gets messy.

Our relationship with alcohol can hold the same dynamics, emotions and drama that cloak other tricky relationships. If you have any concerns about your drinking – even minor ones – it’s worth examining to see if you’re in a healthy place with it.

The alcoholic stereotype, apparently, is someone like a dribbling old bag lady drinking from a bottle in a brown paper bag on a park bench. I can tell you if that was the case, I might be out of a job.

Being informed on how to vote in the cannabis issue in the referendum is not simple when there is so much information to wade through on seriously complex issues, and this is made more confusing when we’re being heavily campaigned by strident lobby groups with their own agendas.

When your only problem-solving strategy is to drink, it leaves you with a pretty limited repertoire of life skills. If I was angry, I drank. If I had something to celebrate, I drank. If I was hurt, afraid, guilty, depressed or elated, I drank. And when I drank, all bets were off.