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This year, more people are leaving alcohol out of their holiday celebrations. After years of debate over the healthiness of drinking, overwhelming research suggests that less is more. That has doctors are recommending no drinking over drinking in moderation.Then, a bombshell cancer study came along. Dr. Sarah Church, who’s treated substance use for 20 years, says it debunks the myth of moderate drinking. “The heavier your alcohol use, the higher your cancer risk is and that’s for everything in the whole the digestive tract, so that’s everything from mouth and head and neck cancers to esophageal cancers, intestinal and colon cancer, all the way through,” Church said. “Breast cancer is actually associated with alcohol use, so that’s something people don’t necessarily know but it’s becoming more and more known throughout the research.” Read More

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Sarah Church, a clinical psychologist and executive director of Wholeview Wellness in New York City, said more robust studies are needed "It is critical for us to get the results of a randomized controlled trial that compares GLP-1s to the other FDA-approved medications for (alcohol addiction) before we jump to conclusions about the relative effectiveness of the different medications," Church said. Read More