After that moment, his drinking urges were “never to return”, he said.
“When I asked for help and I realised I wasn’t alone, that there were thousands of people like me, all my fears began to dissolve,” he told the Sunday Times.
The symptoms of alcohol dependence, include:
- Often feeling the need to have a drink
- Getting in trouble because of drink
- Other people warning about how much you are drinking
- Thinking your drinking is causing problems.
This isn’t the only health ordeal Hopkins has gone through over the years.