“For every person with a drinking problem, it’s estimated that at least five of their friends and family are affected by their alcoholic behaviour, however these stories are rarely told in the media and in films, TV and fiction.
Our new campaign ‘The Untold Story’, is launching during Alcohol Awareness Week to highlight that although the problems associated with alcoholism are widely recognised, the friends and family of problem drinkers often live every day with uncertainty, deceit, and in some cases violence or emotional and physical abuse and may need support themselves – this is the untold story of alcoholism. #untoldstory or #untoldstory & #alanonuk”
Read further from Al-Anon UK (UK, November 2018).
