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The Week's Behind VI

Look back in sobriety

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Nick Boyd
Sep 17, 2024
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The problem isn’t the booze - it’s the quality!

Developed by U.S. psychiatrist and addiction specialist Dr John Ewing in 1984, the CAGE test is apparently better than 75% accurate at spotting functioning alcoholics, according to an article in Occupational Medicine in 2014, which the Daily Mail kindly identified for us this week - fully a decade after pub…

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