Alcohol Addiction

‘Christmas was dad’s excuse to start drinking early’

‘TIS THE SEASON… –

Dec, 18, 2024 – “There’s already an excuse to start drinking in the morning, and that was tough because we knew he’d had an excuse to start drinking straight away,” she said.

“We never knew what mood we were going to catch my dad in – whether he was drinking, whether he hadn’t been drinking, whether we were going to do present opening. He was desperate to get up and have a drink.

“You could always see it in my dad, he’d start shaking, he was physically dependent on alcohol. Towards the end of his life it was a litre of vodka a day, that we knew of.”

Ms Dickson’s father, also called Steve, died of multiple alcohol-related illnesses in 2020. She said the podcast was a chance to help others.

“Every story’s different, but there’s so many threads going through it, so many feelings, of not telling anybody, feeling lonely, not knowing how to cope,” she said.

CONTINUE@BBC

C Luke

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