Telford Vice (14 Dec 2020) Our country’s alcohol problem goes way, way back, but Covid has shown how bad it really is. Daily Maverick. South Africa
Category: Alcohol
Alcohol messages disseminated to pregnant women by midwives
Olufunto A. Olusanya, Temitope Olokunlade, Matthew E. Rossheim, Kaylin Greene & Adam E. Barry (11 Nov 2020) Alcohol messages disseminated to pregnant women by midwives. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, DOI: 10.1080/00952990.2020.1836187
CDC: 20% of U.S. women drink early in pregnancy.
Brian P Dunleavy (6 August 2020) CDC: 20% of U.S. women drink early in pregnancy. UPI Health
Story has modern implication
Hansen R (Jan 22 2019) ‘Story has modern implication’ Sun Journal Maine USA
Alcohol labels warning of risk from drinking while pregnant ‘will save lives’
The Guardian (12 October 2018) Read opinion here…
Binge Drinking Affects Brains of Men and Women Differently: Study
NDTV (11 September 2018) A new study published in the journal “Frontiers in Genetics’, that binge drinking affects men and women differently, due to genetics in the different sexes. Read article here…
Alcohol abuse kills 3 million a year globally, most of them men: WHO
CBC News. (21 September 2018). 28 per cent of death were due to injuries like traffic accidents, self-harm and interpersonal violence. Read article here…
Alcohol must be recognised as a drug
Kypri, K & McCambridge, J (20 September 2018) British Medical Journal
To strengthen policy responses to harms caused by addiction industries. Link here…
The authors write: Alcohol, actually ethanol (C2H5OH), is a psychoactive molecule ingested by 2.4 billion people globally.1 A central nervous system depressant, it exists naturally and can be produced in people’s homes. Any alcohol consumption confers health risks, including for a range of cancers,2 and any possible cardiovascular benefits are smaller than was previously understood.3 Alcohol harms users through intoxication, organ toxicity, and addiction, which cause an estimated 2.8 million deaths every year.1 In a recent systematic review and meta-analysis the Global Burden of Disease Alcohol Collaborators concluded that the “the level of alcohol consumption that minimised harm across health outcomes was zero.”Greater access to alcohol increases consumption and a wide range of health and social problems in a dose-response manner, and the most effective policies are those that increase the price and reduce the availability of alcohol.4 Because such measures threaten commercial interests they are challenging to adopt, and ineffectual policy responses often prevail.5 Broadening how we think about alcohol policies based on clear recognition that alcohol is a drug could have important benefits for public health.
Healthy alcohol? Don’t fall for the marketing spin
Keric, D (14 September 2018) Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE). Read article here…
Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
The Lancet (August 23, 2018) Read more here.