meeting emma and talking with professor debbie shawcross has given me a lot to process.differently about our relationship with alcohol as a nation and also about my own history. you know, when i was in my 20s, i drank a lot, you know? don't think i ever had a sober birthday. i was in a band, for example, with six other guys, and we would play around pubs and clubs and, you know, a lot of the time we'd get paid in drink. i'm five foot four and 8.5 stone and forgetting that i can't drink like a guy, but i would. i would, just because it was normal around me. but i never thought of myself as drinking in a way that would give me liver damage. we weren't drinking every day. i guess we were binge drinking. could that have been enough to cause this harm? i want to know more about the possible impact of this pattern of drinking. i've come to the royal free in north london to meet dr gautam mehta. he is one of the authors of a recent study looking at the connections between binge drinking and liver disease. when you think about binge drinking, people have a vision of people spraw