Dr Niall Campbell, of the Priory Hospital in Roehampton, south-west London said, ‘Middle-aged women often turn to wine as a relaxant of choice to self-medicate for exhaustion, stress and sometimes depression. “Wine o’clock” has entered the lexicon and has shifted in recent years from 6pm or 7pm to much earlier. A female patient admitted to me recently that her daughter had said to her “you’d rather have a drink than talk to me”. Online shopping is also fuelling consumption, with wine just being added to the weekly shop.’…
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Woman's Own (Digital) - 1 Issue, 15-Apr-2019