More and more young people are choosing not to drink. But what would society be like without alcohol? And could a new alcohol substitute really give us a risk-free buzz?
heers and mazel tov! We’ve made it halfway through January. Yes, our bodies endured a pounding through the festive frivolities, but through that excruciating cumulative hangover we somehow survived. Our recycling bins have been collected, those bottles of bubbly out of sight and mind. New-year-new-me resolutions can now be abandoned. Anyone fancy a pint?
At university, drinking ramped up exponentially. We were better versed in the latest drinks deals than the contents of our courses: two-for-a-fiver bottles of “Italian white” the ideal start to any night, in or out. Now I’m approaching 30, my drinking has certainly been tempered. Tequila Tuesdays? RIP. But drinking is, without doubt, still a cornerstone of my social life, despite my 2017 Sober October attempt.
Joey Duckworth, now three and a half years sober, became its president last September. For this 27-year-old astrophysics undergraduate, taking over the society made perfect sense. He first went to university at 19, struggled to keep up, then dropped out. Over the subsequent years, he says, booze became a problem. By the time he re-enrolled, it was firmly in his past. “There’s still a heavy drinking culture at university,” he says, “and Liverpool is known for its nightlife.
A flurry of new books and online resources offered early guidance. “Google sober-curious and there’s so much there,” Gooch says. “Our parents’ generation didn’t really have these resources: podcasts, influencers, online articles.” Technology is also a factor. “You don’t want to be drunk viral on TikTok, which can happen instantly.
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