When it comes to drinking, friends and family are often the first to show concern about someone they love. But sometimes we don’t know how to start a conversation about alcohol with someone we care about. What if they take offense? What if they get angry or defensive? What if it makes their drinking worse?

This week, we have a guest blog from Healthline (USA) and the American Liver Foundation.  If you’re growing weary of wine lists and boozy cocktails, you may have happy hour fatigue. From work events to family gatherings, you’re never too far away from a drink. And while that’s not always a bad thing for everyone,

Written by Zane Pocock If you’ve decided to forgo alcohol, maintaining a healthy social life is one of the most difficult aspects that many of us are familiar with. This is a complex enough challenge when we stay in the same place; maintaining friendships that have been partially built on drinking, getting through the Christmas

Shanna Whan is a rural woman who speaks, educates, blogs, and travels. She was a finalist in the prestigious 2018 NSW-ACT Rural Women of the Year awards in honour for her work in the field of alcohol awareness – and has now joined our team of HSM ambassadors to reach even further and show support

June 17, 2018. The day that would change my life forever. I started drinking at the young age of 14, and I fell in love with being drunk. It made life fun and entertaining, and turned me into a more sociable and likeable person. It helped ease my nerves in a social environment and made

We chat to Osher Günsberg, one of Australia’s most recognised TV hosts, about how he learned to change his relationship with alcohol by taking it one day at a time. Osher shares that he lives a great life now and can choose how he spends each day. This wasn’t the case eight years ago. “There

My relationship with alcohol started out of peer group pressure, as so many things do when we’re in high school. To me, drinking wasn’t as bad as, say, smoking weed, because it wasn’t illegal. It was naughty, but not the end of the world and every dad has fun giving his son a first sip

‘Wine o’clock!’ calls a wife to her husband on T.V. ‘Wine o’clock? Where did you get that awful phrase?’ He replies. It struck me. Where did we get it? Why did we start this ‘happy hour’ or phrases like ‘It’s going to get messy’? When did booze become so ingrained in our culture? When did

“I have been drinking since time immemorial; so much so, I can’t pinpoint an exacttime in life where I didn’t indulge in alcohol to get through the day. What I did not realise is that I relied on booze to escape my pain, the kind that has no cure. Although I must admit, it got

Today I am 236 days booze free. A few years ago I could not have fathomed giving up my beloved wine for any extended period of time, despite trying many times. It was my release, it was my freedom, it was my friend. The reckless abandon it would give me meant that I could shut