title: Royal College debates whether MDs should promote moderate consumption of alcohol.
abstract: Emerging news about the potential beneficial effects of moderate alcohol consumption raises some interesting challenges for physicians, who often come face to face with problems created by alcohol. Physicians on the affirmative side won a debate on the pros and cons of moderate drinking that was held during this fall's Royal College meeting. Pam Harrison explains how they did it.
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authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Harrison
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D002170:Canada; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D010819:Physician's Role; D012955:Societies, Medical