“The boy I had been, that had loved poetry, and had wanted so much out of life, was just gone.”
Alcohol can play a central role in the social lives of most Australians – in fact, one in six of us drink at a level that places us at lifetime risk of alcohol-related disease or injury.
For some, the dependence on alcohol can become all-consuming.
Sydney-based writer Joseph Earp spoke to The Drum’s Ruby Cornish about the day he realised something had to change.
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