'I was drinking a bottle of vodka a day but doctors said I was fine'

'I was drinking a bottle of vodka a day but doctors said I was fine' View 5 Images

A woman who became an alcoholic as a teenager says her secret drinking habit spiralled into a full-blown addiction – with a bottle of vodka a day leaving her close to death. Lacey Davis, from Wolverhampton, says alcohol quickly became her way of coping with crippling social anxiety.

By her late teens, she was hiding bottles of gin in her handbag, drinking before job interviews, and even sipping spirits from water bottles while working. The 22-year-old would start drinking at 7am and keep going while doing errands or going to the shops, telling herself it made her feel “normal”.

Her drinking soon spiralled out of control, with a 70cl bottle of vodka or gin becoming a daily routine. By the time she w