If you've landed on this page, something has probably already been quietly nagging at you.

Maybe you've typed "am I an alcoholic?" into Google at 4am. Maybe you've been having the same internal conversation with yourself for months, or years. Maybe you haven't even got that far, and it's just a vague sense that something isn't quite right.

I'm not going to tell you whether you're an alcoholic. That's not a label I use.

We are humans. Alcohol is a drug that is readily available and aggressively marketed to us, and it's so easy to get into trouble with it. We are actively encouraged to drink, and then it can seem surprisingly hard to get help.

I would love to live in a world where you can go and see your GP and talk through your options and what support is available to help you reduce your drinking, including medication. Just like the options we get when we go and see the doctor to help us stop smoking tobacco.

Without being made to feel like there is something wrong with you.

But...