Alcohol Uncovered

By Alcohol Action Ireland

Alcohol Uncovered shares a comprehensive and independent analysis, both national and international, of the many complex issues related to alcohol use.

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The podcast currently has 23 episodes available.

Alcohol Uncovered episodes:

March 01, 2022 Harnessing our health data. If we don't measure it, we can't manage it.
This podcast marks the launch of a policy paper from Alcohol Action Ireland | University College Cork, which draws attention to the rich store of alcohol related data in the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) database.

The podcast features speakers from public health research and advocacy including Dr Zubair Kabir (UCC School of Public Health), Anne Doyle (Health Research Board) and Dr Lesley Graham and Ms Elinor Jayne, Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP).

This podcast and the research on the alcohol burden in Ireland as demonstrated by GBD data have been supported by the Irish Research Council under a New Foundations Grant.

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December 22, 2021 Can Minimum unit pricing make a real difference to reducing alcohol harm?
In this episode, Eunan McKinney discusses with Alison Douglas of Alcohol Focus Scotland and Nic Taylor from Deakin University in Australia, the early indications from both Scotland and Northern Territory, AU, the effectiveness of this public health measure in addressing harmful alcohol use and reducing related harm. This discussion is introduced by Minister Frank Feighan, TD, Minister for Public Health, who was instrumental in advancing the commencement of MUP in Ireland.
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October 11, 2021 An insight into the trauma and complex impact of living with parental problem alcohol use: Part 2
In this episode Marion Rackard, co-founder of Alcohol Action Ireland's initiative: Silent Voices, continues her discussion on the psychological implications of growing up with alcohol harm in the home with Stephanie Brown, PhD, licensed psychologist, researcher and author of Treating Adult Children of Alcoholics: A developmental Perspective.

This 2-part podcast is supported by the Irish Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists and Addiction Counsellors of Ireland. It is particularly suitable for therapists working in this area.

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40min
October 11, 2021 An insight into the trauma and complex impact of living with parental problem alcohol use. Part I
In this episode Marion Rackard, co-founder of Alcohol Action Ireland's initiative: Silent Voices, discusses the psychological implications of growing up with alcohol harm in the home with Stephanie Brown, PhD, licensed psychologist, researcher and author of Treating Adult Children of Alcoholics: A developmental Perspective.

This 2-part podcast is supported by the Irish Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists and Addiction Counsellors of Ireland. It is particularly suitable for therapists working in this area.

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42min
September 14, 2021 Do you know the real risk to your health from alcohol related cancers?
In this episode, Eunan McKinney discusses with Dr Denise MacCarthy and Dr Eleanor O'Sullivan, two women who over the last decade have been at the vanguard of raising public awareness about mouth cancers, about the real risk to alcohol users of attributable cancers, the work of Mouth Cancer Awareness Day and the importance of prevention and early detection.
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37min
June 22, 2021 Alcohol Treatment Services facing real challenges post covid experience.
In this episode, Eunan McKinney discusses with Sara Cassidy, Aiseiri, Mick Devine, Tabor Group and Jennifer Hough, Alcohol Action's policy officer, the themes and recommendations within a new report of the survey of residential alcohol treatment services conducted by Alcohol Action Ireland in 2020 and published in June 2021.
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40min
May 07, 2021 Why does Ireland continue to have a high level of alcohol use?
In this episode, Eunan McKinney discusses with Dr Deirdre Mongan and Anne Doyle, Research Officers within the HRB National Drugs & Alcohol Strategies team, the detail of the HRB's recently published Overview Series: Alcohol consumption, alcohol related harm and alcohol policy in Ireland.
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40min
March 01, 2021 Progressive alcohol policy - gaining ground but how to win the war?
In this episode, Eunan McKinney discusses with Dr Matthew Lesch (University of York), Lauri Beekman (NORDan) and Dr Peter Rice (SHAAP), what were the major learnings from the advocacy experience in Ireland to advance progressive public health alcohol policy, and what interdependent strategies - coalition building; health messaging and political tactics - could be adopted, more widely, to ensure a transition from policy adoption to effective implementation.
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46min
February 01, 2021 Silent Voices - ending the silence on the impact of parental problem alcohol use.
In this episode, Eunan McKinney discusses with Carol Fawsitt, Marion Rackard and Barbara Whelan, the founders of 'Silent Voices' - an initiative by Alcohol Action Ireland - that aims to break a peculiarly Irish taboo on discussing the impact of harmful drinking on children. It explores their motivation to sustain this initiative, reflects on what has been achieved so far and examines what needs to be done by a variety of stakeholders to help improve the lives of 200,000 Irish children, and the adult children of today, who everyday live with the impact and consequences of this experience.
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43min
November 13, 2020 The importance of global alcohol policy in tackling alcohol use.
In this episode, Eunan McKinney discusses with Carina Ferreira-Borges, Programme Manager, Alcohol and Illicit Drugs & Prison Health, WHO European Office for Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases; Colin Angus, Senior Research Fellow, Sheffield Alcohol Research Group, University of Sheffield, and Prof. Karine Gallopel-Morvan, School of Public Health (Rennes, France); and Honorary Professor at the University of Stirling (Scotland), a number of issues relating to the development of progressive alcohol policy, the rational of the WHO's policy "best buys' for national implementation and the challenges that lie ahead for the next phase of global and regional strategies to reduce harmful use of alcohol.
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How many episodes does Alcohol Uncovered have?

The podcast currently has 23 episodes available.