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'I had no idea being a social drinker would damage my liver by 31'

BBC journalist Hazel Martin was told she had liver fibrosis and must go teetotal or she could die.

At King's College Hospital in London, consultant hepatologist Debbie Shawcross tells me that she regularly treats professional women in their 40s and 50s with liver disease. Image caption, Hazel (pictured on the left with a friend) began drinking socially in her teens and it felt completely normalised BBC journalist Hazel Martin goes on a personal journey to find out why alcohol-related deaths from liver disease among women under 40 have risen sharply over the last decade.

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