Personal stories

In this section you’ll find participants’ accounts of drinking, their health issues and experiences of treatment. The stories in this section were carefully written to highlight the complexity of participants’ experiences, the importance of their relationships with family, friends and health professionals in managing drinking, and they ways in which people care for their health while managing difficulties associated with drinking.

NOTE: While these narratives were written from the participants’ interview transcripts and rely on their own words, some aspects have been paraphrased to improve coherence and readability. In making these changes we have worked hard to remain faithful to participants’ original meaning and intentions.