We’re often told that the roughly 10% of people who struggle with real addiction (as opposed to semi-comedic, shh-it’s-fine, occasional binge drinking) are different from the rest of us. The subjects we meet – Aurelie, Joe and Peter among others – have all at some point gone very hard in the dipsomaniac paint.
FYI, laughs are very thin on the ground, but if you’ve got the emotional fortitude this is an engaging and pretty mind-blowing bit of television.Īs the title suggests, this isn’t your typical hand-wringing over whether an extra glass or four of Chablis poses a dilemma. He’s been interviewing patients whose alcoholism has put them in A&E and those at their penultimate destination, Kings’s liver unit. F or his newest documentary, Drinking To Oblivion, Louis Theroux has embedded himself at King’s College Hospital in south London.
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