Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol - Ann Dowsett Johnston
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Written by Ann Dowsett Johnston
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Written by: Ann Dowsett Johnston
Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
Format: Unabridged
Release Date:10-01-13
Publisher’s Summary
In Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, award-winning journalist Anne Dowsett Johnston combines in-depth research with her own personal story of recovery, and delivers a groundbreaking examination of a shocking yet little recognized epidemic threatening society today: the precipitous rise in risky drinking among women and girls.
With the feminist revolution, women have closed the gender gap in their professional and educational lives. They have also achieved equality with men in more troubling areas as well. In the U.S. alone, the rates of alcohol abuse among women have skyrocketed in the past decade. DUIs, ‘drunkorexia’ (choosing to limit eating to consume greater quantities of alcohol), and health problems connected to drinking are all rising - a problem exacerbated by the alcohol industry itself.
Battling for women’s dollars and leisure time, corporations have developed marketing strategies and products targeted exclusively to women. Equally alarming is a recent CDC report showing a sharp rise in binge drinking, putting women and girls at further risk.
As she brilliantly weaves in-depth research, interviews with leading researchers, and the moving story of her own struggle with alcohol abuse, Johnston illuminates this startling epidemic, dissecting the psychological, social, and industry factors that have contributed to its rise, and exploring its long-lasting impact on our society and individual lives.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Devastating Truth: DRINK, September 23, 2013
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J.E. Ocean “The SilverPen Reviewer” (Beach Dreams, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol (Hardcover)
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DRINK, The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol by Ann Dowsett Johnston, could be the most controversial book of our age. Startling in its clarity, Johnston shines a halogen light on a subject that few people seem willing to talk about. DRINK, in the short of it, is about the frightening rise of alcoholism among women and the way alcohol affects them, their lives, their families and how it has already begun affecting the next generation. This issue is not a sleeping giant, but a ravenous, insatiable coyote, greedy as the grave.
Johnston’s careful brushstrokes of her own personal battle with alcoholism, paint a painful and terrifying picture of what is going on all over the civilized world. She blends candid interviews from alcoholic women in all walks of life, along with some eye opening, keep-you-up-at- night facts from the marketing aspect.
In this book, you will see a woman you know, probably a lot of them. You may, as I did, see yourself. I believe… Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Study of a social problem, August 5, 2013
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Kristi Swede - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol (Hardcover)
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The author weaves her own story as an alcoholic through the story of changes in American culture that promote drinking among girls, young women, and older women. The changes that have normalized binge and chronic drinking are really frightening (and I see them up close in medicine), but there are some hopeful programs which the author highlights.
Ms. Johnston also shares her own journey of sobriety and healed relationships. She doesn’t pull any punches about the effects of alcohol, but this isn’t a confessional either. Drink is really a study of women sinking into disease, perhaps more frequently than in the past, with the author as a case in point.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting book, August 4, 2013
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Melissa Niksic (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol (Hardcover)
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“Drink” is written by a woman who is currently in recovery, but this isn’t just another memoir about an alcoholic. Instead, the author uses her personal experiences as a context for this well-researched look at how the rate of alcohol abuse among women is steadily increasing, especially in the United States. In addition to interviews with experts and researchers who shed light on why so many women are turning to alcohol, this book also points the finger at manufacturers who are directly targeting women in many new alcohol marketing campaigns. It’s an interesting read for anyone who is interested in women’s health issues.
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