S2 E1: How the Alcohol Industry Misrepresents the Truth About Alcohol and Cardiovascular Health

Alcohol’s harm on cardiovascular health is arguably the area where scientific knowledge and public awareness have progressed most slowly in the last decade. For example, public health organizations and health professionals working on cardiovascular issues have been much slower to address alcohol harm in their work, compared to the area of cancer prevention, control and treatment.
In addition to inaction, the myth of alcohol’s benefits for cardiovascular health persists. And in policy making processes this misunderstanding is a critical impediment to accelerating action on alcohol as public health priority. But this is changing.
This episode of the Alcohol Issues Podcast is exploring why change is needed and how it can be further accelerated.