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🍷"It’s your birthday: have a drink to celebrate! You’ve been fired: drown your sorrows! You’re at a funeral: raise a glass to the dead!"

@CamillaTominey explains why there is nothing 'normal' about our addiction to booze
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"The very idea that we mark every social occasion – from cradle to grave – with booze never seems to strike anyone as odd, or even obsessive"

✍️"Boozing has become so established that teetotalers like me constantly find ourselves having to justify why we aren’t doing it"

According to Public Health England, alcohol misuse is the biggest risk factor for death, ill health and disability among 15 to 49-year-olds in the UK, and the fifth biggest risk factor across all ages

"As a society, we have been conditioned to accept alcohol as a “normal” substance despite the fact that it has been found to cause both social and health issues," writes @CamillaTominey

"I gave up alcohol over a decade ago because my mother had drunk herself to death at the age of 54”

“I am not anti drinking – just anti the sort of excessive drinking that has now become endemic in our society” writes @CamillaTominey

"Heavy drinking seems to have become the most acceptable addiction in the world."

❌"People treat it differently to other dependencies – and appear to have lost sight of what problem drinking even is"

"Let's not turn a blind eye to the fact that we live in a skewed society that wrongly views non-drinking as antisocial, when actually it is the other way round" writes @CamillaTominey

🎧 On the latest episode of the #MadWorld podcast Camilla tells Bryony Gordon about how she wishes she didn't have to explain why she doesn't drink

Listen here: playpodca.st/madworld

@CamillaTominey is the patron of @NacoaUK , The National Association for Children of Alcoholics, a charity that provides a space for people, young and old, to discuss the effect parental drinking has had on their life
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