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    Drink: The Deadly Relationship Between Women and Alcohol
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    Drink: The Deadly Relationship Between Women and Alcohol

    By Ann Dowsett Johnston

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    The new face of risky drinking is female. The problem: a global epidemic of bingeing. The solution: a brave new approach to female recovery.

    This is my story, and it's particular. But I am not alone. Drinking problems challenge a growing number of women.
    The new reality: binge drinking is increasing among young adults – and women are largely responsible for this trend. Women’s buying power has been growing for decades, and their decision-making authority has grown as well. The alcohol industry, well aware of this reality, is now battling for women’s downtime – and their brand loyalty.

    Our relationship with alcohol is complex, and growing more so. This book will be essential reading for a huge number of women, a book that's breaks a major taboo. This will be a book for best friends to give one another, mothers to give daughters, sisters to give to each other – a book to read in hiding, when you know you're in trouble. This book will offer companionship for women of every age. It will answer a myriad tough questions.

    Intimate and startlingly honest, ‘Drink’ will be a book to change the lives of women of all ages – and those who love them. A book for anyone who thinks they have a problem, or knows someone who may have a problem, and wants to know more. Which means: just about everyone.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateOct 1, 2013
    ISBN9780007503575
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    Drink: The Deadly Relationship Between Women and Alcohol
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    Ann Dowsett Johnston

    Winner of five National Magazine Awards, a Southam Fellowship and the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy (2011), Ann Dowsett Johnston is a gifted writer, editor and public speaker. Most recently, as Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy, she wrote an 11-part series on Women and Alcohol, appearing in ‘The Toronto Star’. Ann grew up in northern Ontario, rural South Africa and Toronto. A graduate of Queen's University, she lives in Toronto.

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    • 3/5
      Very well-written and researched book by a prominent woman.
    • 2/5
      I wish the author would have stuck with journalistic reporting. Those parts of the book were very good. Eye-opening and scary at times. However, her recounting of her personal sobriety journey was tiresome. I found it especially difficult to appreciate her soul-searching ramblings that occurred during her lengthy (and costly) meditative retreats when earlier in the book she outlined the incidence of alcoholism and struggles of young, economically disadvantaged women.
    • 5/5
      Thins is a book which should be read by every woman, even if you don't think you have a problem with alcohol. You may know someone who does and this book would be very helpful to them.I quit drinking almost three years ago because I thought I was turning into a drunk. Although I did not go through the pain and suffering that the author did, I'm really glad that I quit. The book is the author's journey to recovery. Along the way she provides a great deal of information about what's going on today with women and alcohol. A number of things that I learned are that women are drinking more now than ever before; if you have a good job and the finances to do so, you will drink more; drinking is often caused by a trauma in your past; recovery is painful and will likely be followed by depression; binge drinking is on the increase with younger drinkers; young women are trying to keep,up,with their male counterparts and are bingeing, are often sexually assaulted and have no memory of the events. This book is full of the research Into alcoholism and women and how the physical and mental impacts are different than on men. Women feel so much shame because of the disease and it's impact on their loved ones. The author tells her own story of her mother's alcoholism and how this impacted her family. The booze business is where tobacco was 40 years ago. The advertising for all alcohol products is very subtle where one is guaranteed a good time if one drinks. Public policy needs to start looking at ways of curving advertising and the availability of alcohol to minors.I highly recommend this