Jill Stark on High Sobriety: My Year Without Booze

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Jill Stark, a Sunday Age writer specialising in alcohol and public health issues, came to write her first book, High Sobriety, after one big night too many. On January 1 2011, she woke up with the hangover of all hangovers and decided it was time for a well overdue break from the booze.

'The irony was that binge drinking had been my job -- for more than five years, I'd written about the health and social consequences of Australia's alcohol consumption. At the weekends, I wrote myself off.' Hear her discuss the clash of those two worlds -- and Australia's conflicted relationship with alcohol consumption.

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