Clearly, drinking alcohol can lead to
alcoholism, but it is also clear that most alcoholics have this predisposition from birth, waiting
for the first dropper of alcohol - based cough syrup or spoonful of narcotic croup
remedy.
...... This leads to the uncomfortable conclusion that W may have no direct DPA
remedy herself, and must rely on the Information Commissioner to take action to give her some redress
for the distress she may have suffered as a result of details of her
alcoholism being published in breach of the DPA.