The alcoholic's notebook
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The alcoholic's notebook
One last drink... for the fifth time today. A book based on a blog that won the Magnesia Litera Award.
Michaela Duffková is a young mother who has decided to talk openly about her alcohol addiction and her difficult treatment. Want to know why it's so hard to admit to a drinking problem? Why isn't a small child a barrier to addiction? What was the author's motivation for treatment and what was the first year after treatment like? All the answers are provided by the open and direct confession of an abstinent alcoholic.
The honestly shared experience of falling literally to the bottom aroused a lot of public interest, Michaela won the Magnesia Litera award for her blog and began to lecture publicly about addiction. Today he is working on his dream project - a centre for prevention and treatment of alcohol addiction.
They wrote about the book:
Miša Duffková's story is a great contribution to the destigmatization of female alcoholism and at the same time a unique testimony about pain and hope.
- Prof. PhDr. Michal Miovský, Ph. D., Head of the Clinic of Addiction Medicine, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague
Michaela Duffková
Michaela Duffková (1992) entered the public consciousness as the author of the blog Notebook of an Alcoholic, for which she won the Magnesia Litera Award. Her frank personal testimony about female alcoholism was also published as a successful book and adapted into a film. Michaela continues to work on the topic of addiction both literarily and therapeutically. On her initiative, the Alkos addiction treatment centre was founded. The first book was followed by the titles Notebook of a teetotaler (2021) and Notebook of a non-alcoholic (2024). Apart from publishing and therapeutic activities, she is mainly devoted to her three children.
