No More Drink Limits
It’s ironic these revised recommendations were issued in 2026, since the last few years have seen an abundance of findings as to the serious health consequences of drinking-- including various cancers
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Ancestry of Alcohol
It’s easy to understand how primates and other animals discovered fermentation — it happens naturally when fruit is left to lay around.
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Does Minimum Unit Pricing Work?
I’d have to call MUP a blunt instrument. One that does achieve its primary goal– that’s important– but not without possible consequences.
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Labels & Screening
(per the Surgeon General), “…alcohol directly contributes to 100,000 cancer cases and 20,000 related deaths each year…”
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More folks talking recovery
…it’s a common dilemma for many people in her situation — do I really have to give up alcohol forever?
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Those Pesky Control Strategies
…(a) common tactic is to swear off alcohol entirely for the duration of the Holiday season. Then, having ‘proved’ to oneself (and, hopefully, to others) that you can abstain, you promptly go right back to drinking.
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Warning Labels on Liquor — Worth the Effort?
Of course, we should expect significant opposition from the alcohol industry.
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Another Country Tries Prohibition
…efforts to provide treatment for the many victims of rampant alcoholism have been relatively rare, largely volunteer efforts funded by donations rather than much in the way of government support.
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The Bill Comes Due
ALD (alcohol-related liver disease) in the United States is projected to cost $355 billion in direct healthcare-related costs and $525 billion in lost labor and economic consumption.
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Odds & Ends
…they may have purchased what they believe to be cocaine, or methamphetamine, or heroin, any or all of which may have been ‘cut’ with fentanyl or another uber-potent synthetic opioid, in sufficient quantity to overcome their tolerance and put them in imminent danger of death.
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A State Considers Taxing Alcohol
One legislator worried that people who suffered from trauma and various social inequities needed alcohol as a form of self-medication.
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A Revolutionary Plan
Not surprisingly, people with more money kept right on drinking the way they had before, apparently unmoved by increased expense.
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Russians Love Their Vodka
Public health is a pipe dream when, as happened in the 1990’s, a typical adult male Russian consumed an estimated one hundred and eighty bottles of vodka annually.
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