What are the benefits of having a dry January?

What are the benefits of having a dry January?

Author: ABC Australia January 24, 2026 Duration: 41:55
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If you're having a month off the beers to kick off the year, do you know what a short stretch of sobriety could achieve? Some companies in the United States are even pushing people to trade their alcohol for THC, for "high" January.  Also, there hasn't been a big COVID spike over the holidays, but the flu has been going around.  People aren't accessing palliative care early enough to reap the benefits, but are there enough services to go around? And a study finds women notified of their breast density are often confused and anxious about what to do next.  References: NSW respiratory surveillance Senior CDC official: Loss of measles elimination status in U.S. would be ‘cost of doing business’ Prenatal paracetamol exposure and child neurodevelopment: a systematic review and meta-analysis Alcohol consumption and mortality from four alcohol-related cancers in Australia 1950-2018: a time series analysis Early Palliative Care and Quality of End-of-Life Care for People With Terminal Cancer, Victoria, 2018–2023: A Retrospective, Population-Based Cohort Study Impact of population based breast density notification: multisite parallel arm randomised controlled trial in BreastScreen

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