Jenny Valentish is the author of Woman of Substances: A Journey into Addiction and Treatment (Black Inc) and also of the novel Cherry Bomb (Allen and Unwin), set in the Australian music industry. She is the former editor of Time Out Melbourne and triple j’s Jmag and contributes arts features to the Sydney Morning Herald, the Monthly and the Guardian. She studied Alcohol and Other Drugs at Turning Point/Monash University and is one of the core team of AOD Media Watch, dedicated to improving the reporting of alcohol and other drug issues through the critical analysis of media stories.