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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Thursday <strong>June</strong> <strong>28</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 5<br />
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still drinking?’<br />
<strong>The</strong> first meeting was in the<br />
surgery of an alcoholic Auckland<br />
dentist who was passionate about<br />
helping others recover from the<br />
disease of alcoholism.<br />
Instead of beer, Luck now<br />
drinks sparkling water with<br />
lime. If he’s singing at a show, he<br />
can get through three litres in a<br />
couple of hours.<br />
In the middle of a national tour<br />
with his Jordan Luck Band, he<br />
finds sober life “absolutely joyous.”<br />
He says his health has improved.<br />
And he’s enjoying people<br />
telling him how much better he<br />
looks – “that kind of stuff goes<br />
down merrily.”<br />
To others for whom alcohol<br />
is troublesome, his message is:<br />
“If it’s problematic, ease back. If<br />
you’re an alcoholic, stop.”<br />
Alcohol is a “psychoactive<br />
drug, which produces a compelling<br />
euphoric experience in most<br />
users, and has for thousands of<br />
years in most human societies,”<br />
says professor of psychiatry and<br />
addiction medicine at Otago<br />
University Doug Sellman.<br />
“In our society, however, this<br />
natural attractiveness of alcohol<br />
is pushed along by very heavy<br />
CULTURE: Jordan<br />
Luck said his health<br />
has improved after<br />
giving up drinking.<br />
marketing by the alcohol industry<br />
as a social tonic, and almost a<br />
health tonic at times - certainly a<br />
product that indicates social success,<br />
like cigarettes 50 years ago.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> impact of this marketing<br />
is combined with alcohol’s relatively<br />
low price, high accessibility<br />
- particularly through supermarkets<br />
- teenage purchase and lack<br />
of stringent Scandinavian-like<br />
drink driving laws and produces<br />
a culture of heavy, normalised<br />
drinking, with enormous negative<br />
consequences,” Dr Sellman<br />
said.<br />
-NZ Herald<br />
NEW LOOK: An artist’s impression of the Town Hall with<br />
the new addition for the orchestra.<br />
Town Hall progress<br />
THE UNDER construction<br />
Town Hall has had a new<br />
building added, which will<br />
provide a home for the<br />
Christchurch Symphony<br />
Orchestra and Vbase.<br />
<strong>The</strong> new Warren and<br />
Mahoney designed addition<br />
replaces the Cambridge Room,<br />
which was demolished as part<br />
of the repair and strengthening<br />
of the Town Hall. <strong>The</strong> CSO<br />
building is part of the reason<br />
why there has been a budget<br />
blowout. <strong>The</strong> initial budget for<br />
the project was $127.5 million<br />
but this was revised to $152.2<br />
million. <strong>The</strong> city council said<br />
the budget blowout was also<br />
due to “inflationary costs” and<br />
the additional expenses associated<br />
with bringing the building<br />
up to a modern standard,<br />
alongside the new CSO facility,<br />
which is a “significant change<br />
in scope”.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is also a “significant<br />
contingency”, which the city<br />
council said it will not release<br />
for “commercial reasons.”<br />
City council general manager<br />
citizens and community<br />
Mary Richardson said the<br />
cost of repairing and restoring<br />
the Town Hall was about $40<br />
million less than building a<br />
new hall. A reopening event is<br />
planned for March.<br />
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