According to the British Medical Journal, alcohol-use disorder is a “problematic pattern of alcohol use leading to significant impairment or distress” that includes a “spectrum of at-risk drinking”.

It’s not alcoholism, which according to the NHS is a condition where someone has an excessive desire to drink and loses control over their drinking.

“Alcohol-use disorder sits on a spectrum, and people who have it don’t necessarily drink every day and can go for weeks without a drink,” says Sir Ian Gilmore, a professor of hepatology at the University of Liverpool, the chair of the campaign group Alcohol Health Alliance UK and the Royal College of Physicians’ special adviser on alcohol

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