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The link between alcohol and cancer
Summary
This Yale SPH Q&A explains how alcohol contributes to cancer risk and why U.S. leaders are exploring updated warning labels. Dr. Vasilis Vasiliou highlights mechanisms (e.g., acetaldehyde, oxidative stress), dose–response effects, and the way alcohol amplifies other carcinogens such as tobacco smoke. Guidance includes: don’t start drinking for health reasons; if you drink, keep it modest and consider personal/family risk factors.
Healing a Village: A Practical Guide to Building Recovery-Ready Communities
Addiction is not just an individual crisis—it’s a community crisis. This book offers a practical roadmap for how neighborhoods, cities, and service systems can step up to become safe, supportive environments for recovery. It centers lived experience, shared leadership, and systemic change as key components of healing.
Agents of Change in Environmental Justice
Most environmental policies are shaped without the voices of communities most impacted. Agents of Change shifts that balance by empowering underrepresented scholars to lead in media, science, and policymaking—redefining power, participation, and truth in public health and environmental spaces.