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Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol
Award-winning journalist Ann Dowsett Johnston illuminates the startling trend of binge-drinking among women; dissects the psychological, social and financial factors that have contributed to its rise; and explores its long-lasting impact on our society and individual lives, including her own.
In Drink, Johnston interweaves in-depth research and interviews with leading researchers with the moving story of her own struggle with alcohol, as well as those of many other women, from age seventeen to seventy. The result is an unprecedented and bold inquiry that is both informative and shocking.
"Drink is a gift to women, to parents, and to all who want to understand the experience of alcoholism. The writing is gripping and vivid, the voice personal, the research exacting, the stories revealing if sometimes heartbreaking, the conclusions essential. A triumphant life, a triumphant book." -- Gabor Mate, M.D., bestselling author of In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts, The Myth of Normal, and When the Body Says No