This week: Bingeing moderate amount multiplies alcohol risk; UK no-lo beer sales double in five years; Minimum pricing has little effect on characteristics of treatment intake; Long-covid and alcohol intake correlation found
Drinkers drinking a moderate average amount per week, but with a pattern of bingeing were nearly five times more likely to experience multiple alcohol problems and were twice as likely to experience more alcohol problems nine years later, according to a new study.
Brits bought $454m of alcohol-free and low-alcohol beer last year, almost double the figure in 2016, said the alcohol industry’s IWSR. AB InBev now need too triple the volume of no-lo beer it sells in three years to meet its global target. It defines it as beer up to 3.5%.
Nearly three-quarters of people with long covid were consuming concerning levels of alcohol one year after they caught the virus, according to new research., according to a small study.
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