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This week: Mother's Ruin
Too much alcohol doesn't do anyone any good. But women come off even worse than men: they get drunk on less, they are more likely to contract liver disease, they can damage an unborn child -with serious risks for its future mental development.
Yet women in Britain now drink more than ever before and start earlier. Supermarkets sell drink along with breakfast cereal, and women's magazines are saturated with advertisements which some claim glamorise alcohol. Certainly, sales have doubled in less than ten years ...
Man Alive meets women with drinking problems, and asks doctors and researchers if more should be done to warn people of the risks they run.
Producer JOHN PERCIVAL Editor tim SLESSOR