Alcohol Use Disorder – and Substance Use Disorders in general – are men’s issues because many more men than women suffer from them. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported in 2024 that an estimated 400 million people, or 7% of the world’s population aged 15 years and older, lived with alcohol use disorders. The alcohol-attributable mortality was heaviest among men, accounting for 2 million deaths annually compared to 600 000 deaths among women, in 2019. The WHO report is here.

I have a website dedicated to Alcohol Use Disorder, Men Stop Drinking. After having been a heavy drinker for many years, I’ve been abstinent from alcohol since 9 September 2025, when I started taking Antabuse (disulfiram) daily. I haven’t wished to drink alcohol since that day. I stopped taking Antabuse in May 2026, and remain abstinent. If you’re a man with a drinking problem, and could possibly benefit from support and advice to help you become abstinent, feel free to contact me (mike@j4mb.org.uk). I shall not charge for my time.

Paul Elam was a substance abuse counsellor for 30 years. He and I co-wrote a short book, ANTABUSE: The one-step program for alcohol abstinence. Available only through Amazon, the Kindle edition is available to order here, the paperback edition here. We recorded a discussion about Antabuse and alcohol abstinence, here (video, 36:59).

—————————-

If you’d like email notifications of our new blog pieces, please enter your email address in the box near the top of the right-hand column and click ‘Subscribe’.

We shall shortly be posting this piece on our X channel.

Our YouTube channel is here.