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Half A Bottle of Whiskey A Day!

John DeCaux says he has ‘never felt better’ two years after giving up alcohol and intends to share his life-altering results with other problem drinkers around the world.

‘ I have shed about 17 kgs already and I’m now working out...

Life without alcohol, What? For many of us, alcohol is a means of enjoying life. A beer on the porch on sunny evenings or wine to pair romantic meals with, alcohol has long been associated with fun.

Flashy adverts urge people to drink and construct the idea that drinking is...

 The traditional image of someone with a drinking problem is a person who regularly consumes alcohol excessively and whose life is breaking down as a result of it. But that’s not often the complete truth or the full story.

Many individuals appear to be doing great in life despite the...

Is there a link between intelligence and alcohol?

I have a very hands-on relationship with the members of my online stop drinking program. I can say that over the years and considering the thousands of problem drinkers I have met. Not once have I concluded that they are just...

If you are drinking every night to the tune of a bottle of wine, this may knock you sideways.

I have been writing about the risks of drinking for nearly a decade, it takes a lot to shock me these days.

However, this latest research coming out of the United Kingdom has done just...

 ‘Cause’ is probably the wrong word when it comes to alcohol and arthritis. Because it is almost a certainty that drinking is not the primary trigger for the onset of rheumatoid arthritis.

Perhaps the more relevant question is ‘does alcohol aggravate arthritis’?

When...

We live in a distorted reality where the regular consumption of a proven carcinogenic is considered normal.

Conversely, the people who don’t want to drink to the poison are considered strange, unsociable, and boring.

If aliens visited this planet from another world and observed this...

Or... perhaps, is  life too short because you drink?

Many people defend their use of alcohol with statements that on first hearing sound entirely laudable.

Statements such as ‘I drink, so what? I am not hurting anyone else’, ‘I drink because life’s too short’...

As Mark Twain said, stopping drinking is easy, why I have done it a thousand times. The challenge is staying stop, and a lot of people get very anxious about what will happen to them if they ever fall off the wagon.

Problem drinkers struggle for a long time on their own before they...

Hypnosis for alcoholism has been around from pretty much the same moment we started drinking the stuff. Lots of people drink alcohol, it’s everywhere. Most people have no issue establishing a clear boundary to just how much they consume and how frequently.

However, for some,...