Health
‘I was hammered for the first month of lockdown’ – meet the people who quit alcohol in the pandemic – The Guardian
Despite the stories of people drinking more when confined to home, for many this has been a time to tackle their dependency

There was nothing extraordinary about the weekend that Charlotte Davies decided to stop drinking. The 47-year-old office manager, from the Berkshire village of Warfield, watched TV with her husband. They cooked. On the Saturday evening, Davies drank two bottles of red wine. Fetching the wine from the garage, where she stores it, she realised with dismay that the 36 bottles she had ordered online had almost gone. She made a mental note to order more.
On Sunday, her hangover was horrendous. I was…
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