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By James Cook
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image captionExperts says lockdown was hugely damaging for drinkers
For years Susan struggled with alcohol, drinking up to three bottles of wine a day and hiding the evidence.
Three years ago, the 45-year-old managed to get her drinking under control but 2020 has been tricky .
The Covid pandemic and the lockdown from the end of March meant she lost both of her jobs, one at an airport, the other in a hotel.
A college course was suspended and when her partner returned to work Susan, not her real name, found herself stuck at home, struggling to home-school her son, resentful and worried about money.