New alcohol research shows drinking small amounts can still be harmful to health - PBS NewsHour

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Canadian health authorities had previously said that a low risk amount of alcohol was about ten drinks per week. Now a panel of advisors to the government, citing some of this research on alcohol’s impacts, suggested lowering that to two drinks per week. Dr. Tim Naimi of the University of Victoria’s Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research joined William Brangham to discuss the analysis. - Aired on 01/26/2023.


This report resonated with me since I do come from a family of alcoholics/heavy drinkers on my Dad's side. My grandmother wasn't one of them, she never had more than one drink, but of her four children, three died of cancer and she outlived them. I seem to have inherited the alcoholic gene, but I've been sober for 13 years and 9 months and I'm grateful.