Article: Sue Carroll: Boozy Best has called time on our patience.(Features)

Byline: Sue Carroll

MY FRIEND Tom is an alcoholic. Unlike George Best, who has been cushioned by money and the never-ending assistance of medical science, when Tom hit rock bottom 10 years ago the choice was stark.

For him, there was no new liver to replace the one ravaged by booze. The prognosis was straightforward.

Continue drinking and die. Or quit and live.

Tom crawled out of the gutter - literally. A former radio presenter, he was discovered by an old colleague knocking back meths in a graveyard and hauled ...

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