Binge drinking: Acute consequences and lasting impacts
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Tuesday 30 June - 1.30pm AWST/3.30pm AEST/7.30am CEST
Binge drinking is commonly understood in terms of immediate harms such as injury, violence, poisoning and road crashes. However, a major new international report, Binge Drinking: Acute Consequences and Lasting Impacts, highlights that rapid, high-dose alcohol intake can also contribute to longer-term health risks, including alcohol dependence, dementia, cardiovascular disease, liver disease, cancer and other chronic conditions.
This webinar will be structured around three linked presentations and facilitated by NDRI Professor Michael Livingston.
Professor Frida Dangardt will present the introductory segment, providing an overview of binge drinking prevalence and trends in Australia and elsewhere, and outlining major acute and long term harms and risks associated with binge drinking.
Professor Sven Andreasson will then describe the physiological mechanisms through which binge drinking contributes to acute and long-term harms and explore how repeated episodes of high blood alcohol concentration affect biological systems and increase the risk of disease and injury over time.
NDRI Professor Tanya Chikritzhs will conclude the session with an overview of population and individual level policy and prevention strategies shown to reduce binge drinking and related harms and provide an overall summary.
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Posted on: 8 Jun 2026
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