When she was about to leave her midwest home to head to drama school in New York in the 1940s, the actor Elaine Stritch’s father offered her some parental guidance. “Lainie,” he told her, “you are not the same after two martinis.”
Good advice, then and now. But while awareness of the harm that excessive alcohol consumption can do has grown in the intervening years, our relationship with booze has not necessarily improved all that much. And the use (or abuse) of alcohol at work remains a live issue.
