The Alcohol Issues Podcast is an original production from Movendi International. It’s a show about latest alcohol policy developments, brand new research, and stories that reveal the predatory practices of the alcohol industry. We bring you in-depth conversations with trail-blazing alcohol policy makers, visionary community activists, and leading scientists. We do it all to reshape how the world thinks about alcohol’s impact on society and the benefits of alcohol policy action.

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All episodes of season 3

In the third season of the Alcohol Issues Podcast, we meet with trail-blazing alcohol policy makers, visionary community activists, and leading scientists for in-depth conversations. We do it all to reshape how the world thinks about alcohol’s impact on society and the benefits of alcohol policy action.

How WCRFI Wants to Galvanize Governments to Address Alcohol’s Direct Link to Cancer 
A Review of Alcohol Policy Highlights in 2023 and an Outlook for Alcohol Policy Trends in 2024
How Communities Can Advance Cancer Prevention Through Awareness and Policy Action on Alcohol

All episodes of season 2

In the second season of the Alcohol Issues Podcast, we meet leading researchers, civil society activists, and policy makers to explore current alcohol policy topics and the big questions in alcohol science and community-based advocacy.

S2 E8: A Human Rights Based Approach to Alcohol Policy: the WHO Global Alcohol Action Plan and Beyond
https://movendi.ngo/news/2022/04/08/s2-e7-lessons-from-big-tobacco-how-and-why-big-alcohol-created-social-aspects-public-relations-organizations%EF%BF%BC
S2 E6: How Big Alcohol Derails Alcohol Prevention Efforts in the Netherlands
https://movendi.ngo/news/2022/03/04/s2-e5-how-big-alcohol-uses-the-world-trade-organization-to-influence-global-alcohol-policy%EF%BF%BC
https://movendi.ngo/news/2022/02/15/s2-e4-big-alcohols-attack-on-the-eus-beating-cancer-plan%EF%BF%BC
S2 E3: Alcohol’s Forgotten Social Harm: Children Growing Up In Households With Alcohol Problems
S2 E2: Alcohol Policy and the WHO: What Happened at the Recent Executive Board Meeting
S2 E1: How the Alcohol Industry Misrepresents the Truth About Alcohol and Cardiovascular Health

All episodes of season 1

“Lessons For Alcohol Policy From the Coronavirus Crisis: Potential and Challenges For Building Back Better”
“Brand New OECD Report: The Economic and Health System Case for Alcohol Policy”
“The 3-Year Anniversary of Alcohol Minimum Unit Pricing and the Future of Alcohol Policy Development in Scotland”
“The Inner Workings of the Public Health Alcohol Act In Ireland: From MUP To Changing the Alcohol Norm”
“Commercial Determinants of Health and the WHO: Conflicts of Interest at the New WHO Foundation”
“Understanding Alcohol Taxation: Design, Potential and Window of Opportunity”
“The WHO, Big Alcohol Self-Regulation and the New Global Alcohol Action Plan”
“Exposed: The Strategies Big Alcohol Deploys to Interfere in WHO Alcohol Policy Consultation”
“Hearing the Silent Voices: Children from families with alcohol problems in Ireland”
“Changing the alcohol norm: The potential of digital communities and alcohol-free challenges”
“New Report: Lethal Interaction Between Alcohol and COVID-19”
“Understanding Alcohol Harm as Feminist Issue”
“Alcohol Consumption and Harm in the Americas Region”
“Sludges and Dark Nudges in Big Alcohol’s CSR Campaigns”
“Alcohol’s (and the Alcohol Industry’s) Role in the NCDs Tsunami”
“Lithuania’s journey to worldwide alcohol policy role model”
“Lessons from an advocacy success story”
“Alcohol as obstacle to development”

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