Adrian Chiles has detailed his troublesome relationship with alcohol over the years in his book entitled 'The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking Less'.
That relationship included first having to recognise he had an over-realiance on it despite still being a perfectly functioning member of society going by the surface level metrics of being able to fulfil his work duties and not having any rock bottom moments.
After all, in his own words: “I wasn’t waking up in shop doorways, wetting the bed, getting into fights or drinking Pernod in the morning.