num_pages: 240
description: In 2009 Elspeth Muirs youngest brother Alexander finished his last university exam and went out with some mates on the town. Later that night he wandered to the Story Bridge. He put his phone wallet T-shirt and thongs on the walkway climbed over the railing and jumped thirty metres into the Brisbane River below.Three days passed before police divers pulled his body out of the water. When Alexander had drowned his blood-alcohol reading was almost five times the legal limit for driving.Why do some of us drink so much and what happens when we do? Fewer young Australians are drinking heavily but the rates of alcohol abuse and associated problemsfrom blackouts to sexual assaults and one-punch killingsare undiminished.Intimate and beautifully told Wasted illuminates the sorrows and the joys of drinking.
language: English
title: Wasted: A Story of Alcohol, Grief and a Death in Brisbane
publisher: Text Publishing