Sharing a bottle of wine over supper, a gin and tonic with friends at the weekend, cocktails on holiday – for Penny Whitaker, alcohol had always been one of life’s small, civilised pleasures.
The 45-year-old mother of three, who lives in Suffolk, had never given her drinking a second thought. It was moderate, sociable, and woven into the fabric of family life – something she and her husband enjoyed together and certainly
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