Our Favourite Drug: Why are Women and Girls Drinking so Much?

The webinar recording is now online! View the webinar [1] (53 minutes)

In this webinar, CWHN Executive Director Anne Rochon Ford interviews Ann Dowsett Johnston about her research, including questions and comments from viewers.

Presented by the Canadian Women’s Health Network and the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health [2]

Alcohol is a favourite drug for many people, and women may be having more problems with alcohol than many of us would like to think. Journalist Ann Dowsett Johnston spent a year talking with women, researchers and policy-makers to learn why women drink, and how alcohol affects us differently from men. The results are unsettling.

[3]For more information about this issue,

read Ann Dowsett Johnston's article

Women and Alcohol: To your health? [3]

published June 7, 2012 in CWHN’s Network magazine.

Related links:

Alcohol Policy Network [4] [5]

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Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse [5]
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Blog: Girls, Women, Alcohol, and Pregnancy [7]
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Coalescing on Women and Substance Abuse: Linking Research, Practice and Policy [8]
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British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health publications [9]
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Women and Alcohol: A Special Report by Ann Dowsett Johnston –The 2010-2011 Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy (Series published in the Toronto Star) PDF attached below.