Alcohol.
PM's series on alcohol begins tonight.
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Our reporter, Michael Buchanan has been speaking to 3 different people who've all been affected by the misuse of alcohol.
TOMORROW: Drinking is deeply ingrained in the workplace culture of many professions, but it comes at a cost. Alcohol abuse costs British business an estimated £2 billion a year in lost productivity, and then there's the human cost...Ray Furlong has met Karen Fletcher - once a high-flying city executive, now rebuilding her life after alcohol dependency.
WEDNESDAY: GPs receive very little training on alcoholism. Should they be more able to detect alochol abuse in their patients and do they require more training to help them diagnose the problem? Christopher Landau examines the number of treatment options available for alcoholics and asks whether any of it really works?
THURSDAY: Over the last twenty years, the amount of alcohol that's drunk in France has been rapidly decreasing but according to French Alcoholics Annoymous there are still around 3 million alcholics living in the country with perhaps as many as 10 million people who have a borderline alcohol addiction. Our Paris Correspondent Emma Jane Kirby has been listening to the stories of some of those who have been treated for their illness and hearing how they were helped.
FRIDAY:We'll assess what needs to be done to improve our understanding of alcoholism, its cost to the health service and business and ask whether the testimony we've heard plays enough of a role in various Government alcohol strategies? We're hoping to speak to the Chief Medical Officer, Liam Donaldson and a Professor of Addiction Psychiatry.
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