A heartbroken daughter is calling for booze to be banned from delivery apps after her alcoholic dad was allegedly able to order a bottle of vodka to his home every day.
Brooke Rainbow Adams, 22, lost her father Neil David Adams following a long battle with alcohol addiction.
She claims her dad was able to have alcohol delivered to his door day after day as his drinking spiralled.
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Neil died aged 52 on 30 August after suffering multiple organ failure, according to his daughter.
“For around two years, he had alcohol delivered directly to his home day in and day out,” Brooke, from Birkenhead, told Need To Know.
“For eight months, he was able to order a bottle of vodka every single day, and as far as we knew, nothing ever triggered a safeguarding concern or intervention.
“I started finding large numbers of vodka bottles in the bin, seeing him attend hospital repeatedly, and hearing on several occasions that he was going to die.
“My dad had struggled with alcohol throughout my life, but his drinking became significantly worse during the last two to three years after he moved out of our family home and his depression spiralled.”
Brooke, a clinical support worker, said her family had spent years trying to support Neil through his addiction.
She said: “My dad’s death was one of the most horrific and tragic things I have ever had to experience.
“I watched my dad lose his life to alcohol through multiple organ failure, and our family has been left completely broken.
“As a family, we would tell him that if he was going to drink, he should try to stagger his alcohol consumption, but addiction does not work that way.
“When someone is dependent on alcohol, it can take over their ability to make rational decisions about their drinking.”
After Neil’s death, Brooke said she discovered receipts showing orders for vodka, beer and other alcoholic drinks made through a number of popular delivery apps.
She claims there appeared to be no restriction on how frequently he could order alcohol.
Brooke now wants delivery companies to introduce stronger safeguards which could identify potentially concerning patterns of alcohol purchases.
She said: “If somebody is repeatedly ordering alcohol every day, ordering multiple times within a day, or placing unusually large orders over a prolonged period, there should be something within the system that recognises this pattern and asks whether that person may need help.
“I understand that people with alcohol addiction have their own choices and that adults cannot simply have their freedom taken away, but I believe that vulnerable people should still be safeguarded.
“Until these companies understand the reality behind these orders, people can continue receiving multiple deliveries of alcohol every day without anything being done.”
Brooke has since taken to social media to raise awareness and claims she has received hundreds of messages from people across the UK with similar experiences involving loved ones.
She is campaigning for alcohol to be removed from delivery apps and for stronger safeguards to protect people struggling with addiction.
Pictured: Brooke posting a poignant tribute to her late father online.
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Brooke said: “There should be systems that identify concerning patterns, allow appropriate restrictions to be put in place, and signpost vulnerable people towards support.
“There also needs to be much more help available for people suffering from alcoholism. We cannot simply give up on someone because they cannot stop drinking or because their addiction has become too powerful for them to control.
“Alcohol can take over a person, change who they are, and cause them to lose almost everything.
“I watched that happen to my dad. But despite everything alcohol took from him, one thing it could never take away was the love that our family had for him.
“My brother, who is 24, and I, at just 22, now have a lifetime ahead of us without our dad.
“We have to live with the fact that he will never see the lives we go on to build, and our family has to carry that loss forever.
“I believe stronger safeguards and earlier intervention could help prevent other families from experiencing this kind of devastation.
“My dad was more than an alcohol-dependent person or another order on an app.
“He was our dad, he was loved, and his loss has broken our family.”
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