The movie "One for the Road", the real-life story of a journalist's battle with alcohol, sparks debate over France's self-image as a nation of moderate wine-lovers.
According to the French Observatory on Drugs and Drugs Addiction, the proportion of French adults having or having had a problem with alcohol use has been stable since the early 1990s and in terms of overall consumption the French drink around 10% more units of alcohol each year than the British. Those most at risk of alcoholism were men in managerial jobs aged between 45 and 60. One phenomenon increasingly visible in France, especially among young people, is "binge-drinking", though it is remains a relatively minor problem.
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