11 min read
As a music journalist, Erica, a 39-year-old in Queens, New York, is constantly surrounded by alcohol. She says it flows freely at concerts, over drinks with publicists, and on the flights to and from the festivals she covers.
“In the rock ’n’ roll culture that I work in, it becomes very normalized to drink a lot ,” she says. “And when that was combined with situations that make me anxious, like interviewing people and traveling alone, I would often ‘pregame’ by having a drink before an event just to feel less nervous,” Erica explains.
While she never got to the point where she believed she was addicted to alcohol, Erica was drinking…
Read the full article at PREVENTION.COM
