WEEKLY ALCOHOL ISSUES
Week 4, January 25 – January 29, 2021
This week’s Special Feature is dedicated to our brand new report “Alcohol and the coronavirus pandemic: individual, societal and policy perspectives” showing the lethal interaction between alcohol and the coronavirus pandemic. The groundbreaking analysis provides for the first time a comprehensive picture of the individual, societal and policy dimensions of the interaction between alcohol and the coronavirus crisis…
Alcohol issues from our Policy Newsfeed cover the silent epidemic of alcohol use disorder in the US; the extremely vulnerable situation of children from families with parental alcohol problems in the UK; and Norway’s latest alcohol policy response to COVID-19…
Alcohol issues from our Science Digest are the deteriorating mental and physical health of Canadian university students during the coronavirus crisis; and the alcohol-related cancer burden in the United States…
Alcohol issues from our Big Alcohol Watch expose how and why Big Beer is suing the South African government over their alcohol sales ban to fight back the pandemic…
Special Feature – Week 4:
NEW REPORT ABOUT INDIVIDUAL, SOCIAL, POLICY ASPECTS OF LETHAL INTERACTION BETWEEN ALCOHOL AND THE PANDEMIC
Media release and report summary
Find the key points of the report, statements about the report, and the link to the PDF version.
On our News Center, we provide daily updates about and insights into the interaction between the coronavirus pandemic and alcohol harm and policy with stories from around the world.
Alcohol Policy News
Latest Science Digest
Big Alcohol Watch
For more context and background reading
New Alcohol Issues Podcast Episode: “New Report: Lethal Interaction Between Alcohol and COVID-19”
Listen to special episode 10 of the Alcohol Issues podcast wherever you get your podcasts: Google, Spotify, Apple, Podbean.