This week on Wellbeing, we begin a series looking at Alcohol Use Disorder (formally known as alcoholism). Our first guest of this five-part series is Professor John B. Saunders, a consultant physician in internal medicine and addiction medicine. In 1989, through The World Health Organisation, Professor Saunders developed the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test, the most widely used alcohol screening test in the world. In this episode, he defines what alcohol is, how it effects and changes the brain, how long alcohol use disorder takes to develop, and how it affects people differently. Tune in next week for Prof. Saunders’s second episode looking into this topic.

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