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Issue 4 October 2021

Raising awareness of the Link between Alcohol and Cancer

The HSE Health and Wellbeing Alcohol Programme hosted a Webinar ‘Alcohol and Cancer – Reducing the Risk’, to support Mouth Cancer Awareness Day (MCAD) in conjunction with Mouth Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Ireland (MHNCAI).   The webinar can be viewed here. The serious impact of cancer on the lives of thousands of people in Ireland […]

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Issue 2 March 2021

Alcohol during COVID – concerning trends emerging

As we, as a society, continue to live with the realities of COVID, concerning trends are continuing to emerge about the use of alcohol. References to alcohol circulating on social media are often framed in a light hearted way seeing alcohol as a coping mechanism during quarantine and as a natural accompaniment to a ‘virtual’ […]