Alcohol
Each drinking occasion recorded as its own entry, separate from any protocol.
Context & habits
Research records
Historical source snapshot. Not freshly verified, not a recommendation. Study findings, community accounts and app defaults are not interchangeable.
Publication suitability · 2026-10-15: Historical reference only; not a clinical verification. Clinical, regulatory, efficacy, safety and dose claims are not independently established by this review.
Alcohol
Each drinking occasion recorded as its own entry, separate from any protocol.
Evidence category: Systematic review. This describes the source category, not approval or certainty.
Regulatory statement in source: Not separately recorded; do not infer approval from the evidence category.
Logging each drinking occasion mirrors how the Global Burden of Disease study measured population-level alcohol intake across 195 countries. That analysis found that the consumption level associated with the lowest total health loss, combining cancer, injury, and cardiovascular outcomes, was zero drinks per week.
Benefits reported in the imported source
- Logging each drink creates a record that can be compared against population-level consumption data.
- Lower consumption levels are linked with lower risk across most alcohol-attributable disease categories in the Global Burden of Disease analysis.
- Tracking intake over time can reveal drinking patterns not visible from memory alone.
Risks and limits
- The Global Burden of Disease analysis found risk of death and disability rising with each additional drink, with zero consumption associated with the lowest total health loss.
- Alcohol is linked with increased cancer risk even at levels formerly viewed as moderate.
- Self-reported consumption logs are prone to underreporting in survey research.
Source bottom line: Population-level analysis found no consumption level associated with net health benefit once all outcomes were combined, with risk of harm rising from the first drink onward.
Uncertainty: Reference information only. Not medical advice.
Study protocols — reports, not instructions
General adult population across 195 countries and territories, ages 15 to 95 and older
- Reported regimen
- Alcohol exposure estimated from 694 population data sources across a range of consumption categories from abstention upward, compared against relative risks for 23 linked health outcomes
- Duration
- Twenty-six-year observation window, 1990 to 2016, analysed as part of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
- Reported outcome
- Risk of death and disability rose with each additional standard drink, with no threshold below which additional health protection was gained relative to abstaining
- Source
- Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
Claim provenance
evidence.json#/catalog:context:alcohol/protocols/0
Community and practice descriptions
Accounts of a practice are not evidence of safety or effectiveness. Words such as “standard”, “safe” or “recommended” describe the source account, not verified consensus or this wiki’s advice. Commercial and self-published citations are retained for traceability, not vendor endorsement or independent clinical corroboration.
Unverified imported account — Alcohol Consumption Tracker - Rethinking Drinking - NIAAA
An imported authored paraphrase, not a quotation or a recommended protocol.
Review: unverified historical account. The imported wording is preserved for attribution; its full clinical, dosing, efficacy or consensus claims have not been independently established. Described practice context only; no clinical benefit or safety outcome is inferred.
Imported wording: NIAAA's Rethinking Drinking programme describes a printable four-week calendar card for recording individual drinks.
Historical research outcome: verified-description · 2026-10-06
An attributed practice description was verified without importing the source's benefit claims, recommendations or assumptions about prevalence.
- https://rethinkingdrinking.niaaa.nih.gov/tools/worksheets-more/alcohol-consumption-tracker: verified-description — Independently read the live source and checked this limited, attributed description: NIAAA's Rethinking Drinking programme describes a printable four-week calendar card for recording individual drinks.
Pharmacokinetic context
No half-life recorded in this source snapshot. No value has been inferred.
Source references
Snapshot provenance
Source ID: catalog:context:alcohol. Commit: adc7684614f9439b41d91a3312b62e7982c7e20e. Review state: historical-not-reverified. Authored links are retained separately from the canonical evidence links in the public data. App templates/defaults and rejected drafts are archived, not deployed.
Related entries and components
None listed.