Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol
Written by Ann Dowsett Johnston
Narrated by Carrington MacDuffie
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About this audiobook
The new face of risky drinking is female. The problem: a global epidemic of bingeing. The solution: a brave new approach to female recovery.
Eight years ago, Ann Dowsett Johnston was an award-winning journalist and vice-principal of McGill University. In private, she was wrestling the demon that had undone her own mother; the same demon increasing numbers of women are now battling across the world: alcohol.
Aware of her growing dependency, Ann began to document her experiences with drink – the rules she set, and inevitably broke. The diary told a story that was not hers alone. From the 17-year-old heart attack victim to the mother of a child with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, women have bravely shared their own journeys through addiction, creating an alarming composite of the female face of dangerous drinking.
In this startlingly honest book Ann Dowsett Johnson reveals why the relationship between women and alcohol has spiralled out of control. Showing how women can escape from this destructive affair, ‘Drink’ is essential reading for any woman who thinks she has a problem, and for those who care about her.
Ann Dowsett Johnston
Winner of five National Magazine Awards, a Southam Fellowship and the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy (2011), Ann Dowsett Johnston is a gifted writer, editor and public speaker. Most recently, as Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy, she wrote an 11-part series on Women and Alcohol, appearing in ‘The Toronto Star’. Ann grew up in northern Ontario, rural South Africa and Toronto. A graduate of Queen's University, she lives in Toronto.
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Reviews for Drink
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I really enjoyed this book. Personal stories interwoven with observations on the pervasive drinking culture. Very interesting, I certainly learned a few things both about others and myself.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Very well-written and researched book by a prominent woman.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Thins is a book which should be read by every woman, even if you don't think you have a problem with alcohol. You may know someone who does and this book would be very helpful to them.I quit drinking almost three years ago because I thought I was turning into a drunk. Although I did not go through the pain and suffering that the author did, I'm really glad that I quit. The book is the author's journey to recovery. Along the way she provides a great deal of information about what's going on today with women and alcohol. A number of things that I learned are that women are drinking more now than ever before; if you have a good job and the finances to do so, you will drink more; drinking is often caused by a trauma in your past; recovery is painful and will likely be followed by depression; binge drinking is on the increase with younger drinkers; young women are trying to keep,up,with their male counterparts and are bingeing, are often sexually assaulted and have no memory of the events. This book is full of the research Into alcoholism and women and how the physical and mental impacts are different than on men. Women feel so much shame because of the disease and it's impact on their loved ones. The author tells her own story of her mother's alcoholism and how this impacted her family. The booze business is where tobacco was 40 years ago. The advertising for all alcohol products is very subtle where one is guaranteed a good time if one drinks. Public policy needs to start looking at ways of curving advertising and the availability of alcohol to minors.I highly recommend this
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I wish the author would have stuck with journalistic reporting. Those parts of the book were very good. Eye-opening and scary at times. However, her recounting of her personal sobriety journey was tiresome. I found it especially difficult to appreciate her soul-searching ramblings that occurred during her lengthy (and costly) meditative retreats when earlier in the book she outlined the incidence of alcoholism and struggles of young, economically disadvantaged women.