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Alcohol abuse: If we can’t measure it, does it not exist?

Alcohol abuse in global health has been a long-time elephant in the room. It was particularly exciting then, that at this year’s World Health Assembly, a resolution was passed to ‘reduce the harmful use of alcohol.’ But in the discussion by experts about alcohol abuse, I am continually surprised to find almost no attention given [...]

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"There’s something very discomfiting about sitting in a hotel ballroom full of rich people talking about the best ways to help the world’s poorest people when almost none of the latter are present" - Prof. Laura Seahy

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