Several research studies have shown that some women who drink heavily can do as much damage to their bodies in four to five years as a man who has been drinking for 20 to 25 years, according to Laura Veach, Ph.D., director of screening and counseling intervention services at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. “It has something to do with the concentration of water and fat, but we’re really not sure that we understand the whole picture because there is much less research on how women process alcohol,” Veach said.

Children as young as five are ringing a helpline to hear bedtime stories because their alcoholic parents are too intoxicated to put them to bed. Some of the youngsters call the counsellors at the National Association for Children of Alcoholics so regularly their favourite story books are kept by the phones.

Britain is facing a “secret scandal” over failings in the care of the country’s 2.5 million children of alcoholic parents, a group of MPs and peers have warned. The all-parliamentary group, supported by the Archbishop of Canterbury, said their research uncovered a “shocking picture of support for children of alcoholics”, including an apparent absence of strategies to deal with the issue and a dearth of funding in many areas.

A new documentary film chronicling the highs and lows of the life of football genius George Best will premiere in Belfast next week. ‘George Best: All By Himself’ will get its premiere in his home city as part of the Belfast Film Festival on Thursday, February 16. The new film, which will go on general release on February 24, was made by the team behind the controversial but critically acclaimed Bobby Sands film titled ’66 Days’ and boasts of excellent reviews in the official trailer.

DURING Alcohol Awareness Week in November 2016 the Ilkley Community Alcohol Partnership held alcohol awareness sessions at the local youth group, which is held at the Warehouse in Ilkley and at Ilkley Grammar School. A mixture of young people took part in educational and interactive sessions highlighting alcohol awareness, the risks and possible consequences of alcohol abuse and it’s risks to health and wellbeing.

Viewers of ABC were probably puzzled when Elizabeth Vargas, who had it all, would risk it all through getting drunk over and over again. That is, if those viewers weren’t familiar with the complex disease of alcoholism.

It’s a plummet the London-based former Circuz Oz performer recreates literally in a trapeze routine during Notorious Strumpet & Dangerous Girl, a one-woman show combining circus, clowning, comedy and confession with various degrees of success. Framed as an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting , Love begins by introducing us to her family: God-fearing teachers, missionaries and – quelle horreur – fitness instructors.

Alcohol experts are calling for a duty increase on cheap, high-strength cider to reduce its “burden” on the NHS and society. The Alcohol Health Alliance said the low-cost alcohol is putting the health and wellbeing of children and heavy drinkers at risk and cited a survey’s findings that 66% of the public support tax increases.

John Wetton, an in-demand bassist for 1970s rock acts whose “Heat of the Moment” song with the band Asia became a surprise hit, died Tuesday. He was 67. Wetton, who had been sober for more than a decade after a long struggle with alcoholism, died in his sleep from colon cancer complications, his management said in a statement.

A substantial majority of people who died from alcohol abuse in the past decade had no contact with treatment services despite repeated admissions to hospital, health bosses have revealed. Public Health Wales has, for the first time, analysed the health records of 7,901 people registered as dying from alcohol between 2005 and 2014.

‘It was constant f**king grief!’ CBB’s Calum Best admits he ‘drank, did drugs and slept around every day’ following the death of his alcoholic father George He faces a low-key, back door eviction this weekend on Celebrity Big Brother, if he falls short of public votes. But elsewhere, on a separate Channel 5 show, Calum Best has opened up about his relationship with late father George.