the former editor at large of canada's maclean's magazine examines what she calls the closing gender gap in the world of risky drinking. she argues heavy drinking is contributing to several health conditions and cancers and more women in the early draft for more than 20,000 a year in the u.s. alone. the program is about an hour. just goes so nice to be here. >> host: i'm excited to have this visit with you about the new book called "drink," very intriguing and provocative and like i said, right when i was working in treatment about the relationship about alcohol. one of the questions i wanted to ask you is why now? why is this seen as the crisis in important for you to get the message out? >> guest: we are seeing a mobile problem, a closing of the gender gap returning men and women. traditionally we think men drink more than women do. but let's been happy recently as nine have been declining. women are not at all. and this is global. the more developed the country, the richer the country comes to mind the gap between men and women conception. this is a britain, for instance, where we