Listen "Addressing Alcohol Addiction"
Episode Synopsis
One of the founding fathers of the Alcohol Research Center at UConn Health — the longest-running NIH-funded center of its kind — is part of an international collaboration of addiction researchers out with updated findings on the social, cultural and environmental factors that influence alcoholism and harmful drinking. UConn School of Medicine Professor Emeritus Thomas Babor is a lead author of the third edition of Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity, which explains those factors and makes policy recommendations on how to address them. The book is scheduled to be available for hard copy purchase in the U.S. in late January. An open-access PDF is available for free download now.
(Thomas Babor, Chris DeFrancesco, January 2023)
Thomas Babor, professor emeritus, public health sciences, UConn School of Medicine
https://health.uconn.edu/public-health-sciences/faculty-profile-tom-babor/
Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity (open-access PDF)
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/alcohol-no-ordinary-commodity-9780192844484
UConn Health Alcohol Research Center
https://health.uconn.edu/psychiatry/research/alcohol-research-center/
UConn Today feature on Alcohol Research Center, June 2019
https://today.uconn.edu/2019/06/uconns-alcohol-research-center-continues-unprecedented-run/
(Thomas Babor, Chris DeFrancesco, January 2023)
Thomas Babor, professor emeritus, public health sciences, UConn School of Medicine
https://health.uconn.edu/public-health-sciences/faculty-profile-tom-babor/
Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity (open-access PDF)
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/alcohol-no-ordinary-commodity-9780192844484
UConn Health Alcohol Research Center
https://health.uconn.edu/psychiatry/research/alcohol-research-center/
UConn Today feature on Alcohol Research Center, June 2019
https://today.uconn.edu/2019/06/uconns-alcohol-research-center-continues-unprecedented-run/
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