Young alcoholics stories.As new research shows that 43 per cent of women want to drink less, one woman reveals how she became an alcoholic by 20 – and how she finally kicked the habit.
Staggering into her Brooklyn apartment at 2am one night eight years ago, Sarah Hepola threw a pan of pasta on the hob, turned up the heat, flopped on to her sofa and passed out. When she awoke, it was to the smell of smoke and the sound of her landlord’s son banging at the door brandishing a fire extinguisher. “Your smoke alarm has been going off for half an
