There's one place the rich and famous head to sober up – Malibu. So why is the town turning against its biggest business? Ann Friedman visits the rehab riviera where they will clean you up – and clean you out
1 Nov 2013:
It may be more newsworthy when big, posh houses fall victim to the dreaded 'Facebook party', but a universal truth applies: if parents are in on the mayhem, there will probably be less of it, argues 16-year-old Mancunian Lizzie Deane
Anonymous: We've been ill and R and I have been arguing about a parenting decision. It seems like I'll be stuck on stage three of the seven stages of separation – anger and bargaining – for some time
16 Oct 2013:
The passion behind Alastair Campbell's novel about the dangers of alcoholism is commendable, but the heavy handed execution may make you groan, says Annabel Pitcher
12 Oct 2013:
I have sort of fallen in love with a character in a novel who is a fortysomething hard-drinking writer – a brutal narcissist and over-the-hill, womanising alcoholic. Some would say I have questionable taste in men
Football-related arrests rose by 4% during the 2012-13 season according to the Home Office. See how the figures break down by club, location and offence type
Ann Dowsett Johnston: British girls are the west's biggest teenage drinkers. As we were with tobacco, we're in deep denial about the dangers of alcohol
Open thread: More children are being taken to hospital in the UK suffering from the effects of alcohol. What were your experience of childhood drinking?