there are wards full of these kids," while talking about "acute alcoholic hepatitis" in young binge drinkers. While I did learn some things throughout the book, I'm not sure that much else is new or particularly persuasive that could convince an alcoholic to change their behavior; they'd just now be able to tell you why they are doing what they do. It can take a few weeks to remove all effects of alcohol from your system and let your liver fully recover.

Actually rated a quarter-star higher elsewhere, but my review is so short that I don't need to link to that. David broadcasts widely to the general public both on radio and television, including BBC science and public affairs programs on therapeutic as well as illicit drugs, their harms, and their classification. And that was brilliant because one thing for sure is the more expensive the wine, the less people drink. He has edited the Journal of Psychopharmacology for over two decades and acts as the psychiatry drugs advisor to the British National Formulary. For example, in number 2 he describes beta blockers and ends that paragraph with, "Whether they do more than that, I'm not sure.

And to consult and lobby government to adopt more rational drug and alcohol policies based on evidence of individual and social harm. As David Nutt states, if you want to drink less here in the UK it's as if you've decided to stop gambling yet have to live in a Las Vegas hotel.

He was dismissed from this role, as the Government didn’t like his considered scientific advice on harm reduction. Being a B Corp means we’re committed to being a responsible business that has a positive impact for people and the planet, as we work for a world in which people drink mindfully and live well. Although one section is subtitled, "Hangover Cures: What's the Evidence," implying he's presenting information and not recommendations, since this is a self-help book, I might assume that most readers aren't processing the "What's the Evidence" portion of the heading and merely focusing on the promise of "Hangover Cures.He is the chairman of Drug Science, a non-profit which he founded in 2010 to provide independent, evidence-based information on drugs. I think that some further information on counterfactual opportunity cost, based on time/money spent related to alcohol, could have been a helpful addition to this book, albeit difficult to acquire overly didactic data on such factors. Alcohol – a simple molecule that can induce so much pleasure and pain at the same time… As the most harmful drug in the UK, it has a profound and wide-reaching impact on our health and on society at large.