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    HOLD YOUR DRINK

    Mar 08, 2020 5 minutes

    Melissa Spicer remembers the moment she decided to give booze a break. The 47-year-old went to a party more than a year ago with a bad cold, intending not to touch a drop of alcohol. As the night went on, she found herself slugging back martinis, until she went home drunk in the early hours of the next morning.

    Melissa woke up with a hangover and a new realisation: she didn’t like her relationship with alcohol. She wasn’t an alcoholic, but she was a binge drinker who found it difficult to put the lid on her drinking. “When I drank, I got to the stage where I wasn’t quite sure what was going to happen next,” says Melissa who is a prop master in the New Zealand film industry.

    “I started to feel like I

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