Fiction Adaptation Unit- Stephen King's Connection with Alcohol

Whilst reading my copy of the "Shining", I noticed that Stephen King seems to mention Jack Torrence's and other characters affiliations with alcohol an awful lot. As someone who has had a connection with "problem drinking" (drinking to solve a problem or put ones self at ease to escape a problem) I noticed that the ways in which King describes Jack's usage of alcohol and the quantity in which the substance is mentioned and the amount of characters that seem to have been in some way associated with it in the book seem to point towards the Author having an interest or association with it also. As a result, purely out of my own interest I decided to briefly check out Stephen King's history with Alcohol to see if he had any problems with it in the past, and to my surprise, he did.

I found this article here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1178151/Stephen-Kings-Real-Horror-Story-How-novelists-addiction-drink-drugs-nearly-killed-him.html
which reveals that Stephen King had a massive drugs and alcohol binge in the 80s (the same time The Shining was written) and as such, it is understandable and not too hard to envision that alcohol, drugs and their effects would play a part in his stories and be attributed to some of the character's Stephen King creates, in this case, Jack Torrence and Delbert Grady, who both have problems with alcohol and both end up attempting to kill their families (successfully in Grady's case.)

Although in my essay for this unit I will not spend a massive amount of time on this subject, as it doesn't really answer the question I have chosen so much, it is an interesting little point of investigation and something I may briefly reference.
I may also mention that this plot point was left out in Stanley Kubrick's rendition of The Shining, which may have been the reason King was unhappy with that version. King also has a massive part in the development of the teleplay for the mini-series, where the alcoholism side of Jack Torrence's character was once again brought back.

Also, I found this rather comical review of the shining television series, which also makes some valid points on some of the ways the series has been adapted differently from the 1980 film version. The Nostalgia Critic does a good job of making these different ways of adaptation quite clear, and although I doubt highly I will use any information from his review in my essay, I found it to be no doubt an interesting watch.