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Adam, Adam, welcome to the show, Ladd.

Thanks very much.

Yeah.

I really appreciate you coming down from Leeds.

I'm really excited by this one, Ladd.

Obviously, you're two men's health experts.

And I want to go down the route today of sort of alcohol abuse and the what's happened

with alcohol over the last sort of 20, 30 years and the knock-on effect and the detrimental effect it has on people's minds.

So let's go straight in, Jens. This, um, this, this, I want like a bit more information on sort of the abuse of alcohol and what it's done to people over the years.

Yeah, I think from my side, I used to work in hospitality. So I was in

that industry for around 15 years. And you did start to see the trade patterns changing. So I'm 36 now,

and I left about four years ago. So from the early naughties through to around 2020s, when I left before

the pandemic.

And for me, the binge drinking came in, and then it was the late-night bars,

and it was the clubs, and it was in city centres.

They're open until 6am, and it's all you can drink.

Newcastle, live there for a bit, three trebles for a fiver.

It was just, I mean, yeah, you can imagine how about that got.

It's good but bad.

Correct, yeah.

So at the time, you're like, oh, yeah, come on.

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