This week on Wellbeing we speak with Professor Adrian Dunlop from the University of Newcastle. Prof. Dunlop has over 25 years experience in the addiction field both in a clinical and researching setting. Since 2007, Prof. Dunlop has been the Director of the Drug & Alcohol Clinical Services in the Hunter New England Local Health District. 

In this episode Prof. Dunlop talks about what alcohol is, how alcohol can affect people differently, Australia's drinking culture, how common it is for a problem with alcohol to develop, the historical and cultural links to alcohol in Australian culture, the strain alcoholism puts on the health system, and how we should frame what addiction is. 

“Has somebody said to you ‘Hang on, maybe you have a problem with alcohol’, That’s actually not a bad measure of - a non-scientific measure - but a way of working out maybe something is going wrong here.”  - Prof. Adrian Dunlop on this episode of Wellbeing

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