Colin Angus - A healthy relationship with alcohol?
Alcohol is something of a national obsession - deeply ingrained in many aspects of British culture and available on almost every street corner. Yet we are regularly faced with conflicting messages about the impact alcohol has on our health - will a glass of wine a day keep the doctor away, or give you cancer? Deaths caused by alcohol have increased sharply in recent years, yet young people are drinking less than ever. In this talk Colin will examine the data behind the health impacts of alcohol, the evidence behind drinking guidelines and try and make sense of recent changes in our relationship with the demon drink.
About Colin Angus
Colin Angus is a Senior Research Fellow and lead alcohol policy modeller in the Sheffield Addictions Research Group, one of the world's leading centres for alcohol policy research. Colin’s work has played an important role in policy and legal debates about alcohol pricing policies, particularly Minimum Unit Pricing, in the UK and internationally as well as in setting low risk drinking guidelines in the UK and Australia. Much of this work has focused on inequalities associated with alcohol and how policies can improve or worsen these. He spends most of his time wrestling with complicated mathematical models, but is also a fan of a good graph.
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