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Recent Drinkaware research has revealed that in the months since the start of the recession there has been a defined change in the UK's alcohol consumption patterns. Of the 2000 people they interviewed in a survey, 61% of those who knew someone who has been made redundant in the last six months - including themselves - said that they are concerned about the increase in their alcohol consumption. One in 10 (11%) of them are drinking “a lot more”, while nearly three-quarters (71%) of them put this increase in drinking alcohol directly to redundancy. Everybody deals with redundancy in their own way; many see it as an opportunity to do something completely different with their lives, but coping with the initial shock can be hard to say the least. “These figures don’t surprise me,” says consultant psychologist Dr Michael Sinclair of the City Psychological Group. “Redundancy triggers our underlying insecurities and drinking is often a coping mechanism to deal with these... http://claresblog.mintfactory.co.uk/20...