Healthy drinking
I would also take issue with the statement “Scotland’s relationship with alcohol is an unhealthy one”, but would certainly agree that too many people in Scotland’s relationship with alcohol is an unhealthy one. I do not have an unhealthy relationship with alcohol and neither do the vast majority of the people of Scotland.
I, like most other people in Scotland, can distinguish between sociable drinking in the pub and drinking heavily at home because virtually all my drinking is the former and if Dr Gillan and Alcohol Focus Scotland wish to join my crusade to increase the former and decrease the latter, then I am all ears.
Colin Valentine
National chairman, Campaign for Real Ale