The WHO Global Monitoring Framework for Non-Communicable Diseases includes an
ambitious global target of a 10% reduction in the harmful use of alcohol by 2025. 1 A …

Alcohol is a psychoactive substance with toxic and dependence-producing properties, which
is consumed worldwide. More than 2 billion people, or about three of ten individuals, are …

Alcohol is a major contributor to the global burden of disease, 1 adding to inequities in
health2 and life expectancy and affecting disproportionately drinkers of lower …

Comment www. thelancet. com Vol 394 October 19, 2019 1397 to implement effective
alcohol policy. 12 Second, digital expansion, particularly social media platforms and the …

We thank Martin Frisher for his Correspondence about our Article, 1 in which we used linked
data to investigate the alcohol harms paradox. We found that increased alcohol …

In The Lancet Global Health, Yuanwei Xu and colleagues1 make a useful contribution to the
alcohol epidemiology field by using data from 336 287 adult participants (aged≥ 15 years) …

1 GBD 2020 Alcohol Collaborators. Populationlevel risks of alcohol consumption by amount,
geography, age, sex, and year: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study …

The Article by Pepita Barlow and colleagues in The Lancet Global Health1 is an important
piece of scientific evidence that shows once again the influence and interference of the …

“In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.” Benjamin Franklin Globally, more
than 2 billion people, or about three of ten individuals, are current drinkers of alcohol, and …

We synthesised data from 694 sur veys and 592 prospective and retrospec tive studies to
estimate the global burden of disease attributable to alcohol use. As part of that analysis, we …