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Several factors lie behind this, according to Richard Piper, the chief executive of Alcohol Change, a charity that campaigns to reduce alcohol harm. Societal shifts in the past few decades have contributed to higher alcohol consumption in those older cohorts.She went back to working in broadcasting, and presents her own show on BBC Radio Lancashire, as well as hosting a podcast, Over the Influence, about life alcohol-free. I have amazed myself and become what I thought I was incapable of being: an occasional, moderate drinker. The day of my graduation, I was so hungover from my first encounter with tequila the night before (my timing was never good) that I spent the entire ceremony praying I wouldn’t throw up.

The main thing it’s made me realise is it’s so endemic in British culture – people drink all the time and you see, when you stop doing it, how ridiculous it is. Still, the hangover was almost avoided, or at least tempered – until I passed my local pub on the way home and a saw friend of mine standing outside.

I used to brag that I didn’t get hangovers, but I think because of the frequency of my drinking, I lived in a constant state of hangover. He used alcohol and cocaine to self-medicate his low self-esteem, lack of confidence, childhood trauma and then a stressful job in finance. Using examples from his own experience, one by one Allen demolishes all the myths that surround the subject of alcohol.