Increasing risk of alcohol's long-term effects can start with just a few drinks every night
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Increasing risk of alcohol's long-term effects can start with just a few drinks every night

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As alcohol is woven into daily routines and social lives, health authorities are warning that just a few drinks a night could actually be a form of chronic alcoholism. Professor Steve Allsop from the National Drug Research Institute at Curtin University said drinking every day was often something people did without realising the impact. "Once you start drinking regularly, more than two standard drinks a day, there is an increasing risk of a range of things — breast cancer, oesophageal cancer, prostate cancer," the professor said. "It's not even seen as abnormal to see adults all sitting round drinking at a primary school Christmas function." "People take their drinking history with them into older age," Professor Allsop explained.

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