"Addiction is one of today's favourite manias. Like allergies, everyone's got to have one, and many present the evidence for their 'addictive personality' by announcing their greater-than-average capacity for biscuits. But what is addiction? Compulsion, behaviour, illness, all three, or none of the above? Do AA and other 12 step recovery programmes really work? And will a skeptic *ever* admit to needing a higher power? Come and discuss it with me."

Tania Glyde is the author of Cleaning Up, a memoir about how she took on British drinking culture and survived.

taniaglyde.com

Doors 19:30 talk starts at 20:00