I Hit Rock Bottom and Lost Everything . I Had Two Options ... To Get Well or to Die Booze, We Meet the Casualties Behind the Alcohol Crisis

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SERENA Casey is a well-spoken, pretty 28-year-old graduate with an honours degree in English literature, yet has plunged into the pits of alcoholic despair.

Now undergoing treatment at the Touchstones12 centre for those addicted to substance misuse, the office administrator insists her fall into alcoholism came without warning. Or so she thought.

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I Hit Rock Bottom and Lost Everything . I Had Two Options ... To Get Well or to Die Booze, We Meet the Casualties Behind the Alcohol Crisis

"When I was 19 and at university, I remember the day my boyfriend dumped me. I was crying with my flatmate, devastated.

"I got out a bottle of wine and opened it although it was early. Bizarrely from that day something like a switch clicked, and I went from drinking socially to wanting drink every day."

At first she didn't think anything of it, but soon began...

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