{"id":194234,"date":"2023-01-12T09:08:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T14:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=194234"},"modified":"2023-01-12T09:08:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T14:08:07","slug":"podcast-addressing-alcohol-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2023\/01\/podcast-addressing-alcohol-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Addressing Alcohol Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An international collaboration of addiction health researchers is out with updated findings on how social, cultural, and environmental factors influence alcoholism and harmful drinking, plus policy recommendations to address them. UConn School of Medicine Professor Emeritus <a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/faculty-profile-tom-babor\/\">Thomas Babor<\/a> is a lead author of the third edition of <em>Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment --><\/p>\n<p class=\"pf0\"><span class=\"cf0\"><blockquote>\n  <p>If you can understand how alcohol works on the body, just about every organ system is affected, and it provides you a way of learning a great deal about the human condition and about how medicine combined with public health can allow people to achieve the full measure of a healthy life. <cite> &#8212 Thomas Babor<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment --><\/p>\n<p>The book is scheduled to be available for hard copy purchase in the U.S. in late January. <a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/alcohol-no-ordinary-commodity-9780192844484?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\">An open-access PDF is available for free download now.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"yEmGOCtOOU\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/archives\/uconn-health-podcast\/addressing-alcohol-addiction\">Addressing Alcohol Addiction<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Addressing Alcohol Addiction&#8221; &#8212; UConn Health\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/archives\/uconn-health-podcast\/addressing-alcohol-addiction\/embed#?secret=um34sD5W1g#?secret=yEmGOCtOOU\" data-secret=\"yEmGOCtOOU\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international collaboration of addiction researchers led by UConn School of Medicine Professor Emeritus Thomas Babor is out with updated findings on the social, cultural, and environmental factors that influence alcoholism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":158112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2231,2291,2076,1868,179],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2010],"class_list":["post-194234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-well-being","category-psychiatry","category-research","category-meds","category-uconn-health"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 02:52:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194234"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194256,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194234\/revisions\/194256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/158112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194234"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=194234"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=194234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}