An excerpt from Chapter 6 of 50 Years of Hard Road by Nick Charles MBE. I cannot begin to imagine what modern-day health and hygiene inspectors would have made of the many hostels I frequented. However, to people like me, they were an absolute godsend. Street people typically take a…
How do I know if I am an alcoholic? Firstly, let’s do away with the term ‘alcoholic’; it’s an old-school term that comes laden with centuries of baggage and which hinders progressive thinking about alcohol use and possible misuse. Instead, let’s use the term alcohol dependency. As the name suggests,…