The Star: June 28, 2018

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still drinking?’
The first meeting was in the
surgery of an alcoholic Auckland
dentist who was passionate about
helping others recover from the
disease of alcoholism.
Instead of beer, Luck now
drinks sparkling water with
lime. If he’s singing at a show, he
can get through three litres in a
couple of hours.
In the middle of a national tour
with his Jordan Luck Band, he
finds sober life “absolutely joyous.”
He says his health has improved.
And he’s enjoying people
telling him how much better he
looks – “that kind of stuff goes
down merrily.”
To others for whom alcohol
is troublesome, his message is:
“If it’s problematic, ease back. If
you’re an alcoholic, stop.”
Alcohol is a “psychoactive
drug, which produces a compelling
euphoric experience in most
users, and has for thousands of
years in most human societies,”
says professor of psychiatry and
addiction medicine at Otago
University Doug Sellman.
“In our society, however, this
natural attractiveness of alcohol
is pushed along by very heavy
CULTURE: Jordan
Luck said his health
has improved after
giving up drinking.
marketing by the alcohol industry
as a social tonic, and almost a
health tonic at times - certainly a
product that indicates social success,
like cigarettes 50 years ago.
“The impact of this marketing
is combined with alcohol’s relatively
low price, high accessibility
- particularly through supermarkets
- teenage purchase and lack
of stringent Scandinavian-like
drink driving laws and produces
a culture of heavy, normalised
drinking, with enormous negative
consequences,” Dr Sellman
said.
-NZ Herald
NEW LOOK: An artist’s impression of the Town Hall with
the new addition for the orchestra.
Town Hall progress
THE UNDER construction
Town Hall has had a new
building added, which will
provide a home for the
Christchurch Symphony
Orchestra and Vbase.
The new Warren and
Mahoney designed addition
replaces the Cambridge Room,
which was demolished as part
of the repair and strengthening
of the Town Hall. The CSO
building is part of the reason
why there has been a budget
blowout. The initial budget for
the project was $127.5 million
but this was revised to $152.2
million. The city council said
the budget blowout was also
due to “inflationary costs” and
the additional expenses associated
with bringing the building
up to a modern standard,
alongside the new CSO facility,
which is a “significant change
in scope”.
There is also a “significant
contingency”, which the city
council said it will not release
for “commercial reasons.”
City council general manager
citizens and community
Mary Richardson said the
cost of repairing and restoring
the Town Hall was about $40
million less than building a
new hall. A reopening event is
planned for March.
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