Lighten the load of alcohol harms

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Lighten the load of alcohol harms

By Orna McGinn
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New Zealand has the opportunity to make world-leading legislation that will disrupt our unhealthy relationship with alcohol [image: DMPhoto on iStock]

In the first of a new series from Women in Medicine, Orna McGinn writes of a family legacy of harm and a cycle that must be stopped

I thought the UK had an alcohol problem until I came to live in New Zealand I grew up in an alcoholic family. The phrasing is deliber­ate. My dad