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How much alcohol is safe? None, say these researchers.
Other experts were not convinced.
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Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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