Tell me if this sounds familar….it’s just your run of the mill Tuesday evening. You go out for dinner with the best of intentions. Before you know it, that one glass of wine you promised yourself turns into two, two turns into three and then like magic it’s three in the morning and you’re knocking back the shots all over town like you don’t have to be awake in four hours time. 

According to a recent BBC article one in three people struggle to concentrate, make mistakes and have to go home early from work because they’ve over indulged the night before. The survey, carried out by Norwich Union, states that forty-one percent of people in media and the creative industries said they’d been to work still drunk from the night before.

In an unpredictable industry like media, where entertaining and smooshing clients is, often, part of the job the line between unwinding after hours and drinking at an unhealthy level can get clouded. Perhaps blame can be portioned to the drinking culture we have here, and the temptations on offer in the big cities or even the high number of people under 30 in these industries who are still, relatively, free of responsibility. Maybe that’s why the figures appear so startling.

Although there is something karmically rewarding about swapping a pain crushing headache for an all-out night assault on one’s liver. If the prospect of a raging headache and a day of the simplist of tasks becoming all but impossible then, frankly, better you than me. I could, however, recommend you a nice glass of red.