The report, June 26 -- Every day, roughly 7,000 people around the world die from alcohol. Not from addiction as an abstraction, but from liver disease advancing silently over years, from road crashes in the early hours of a Sunday morning, from strokes and heart attacks, from cancers of the mouth and throat and liver that most people do not associate with what they drink. On Thursday the World Health Organization published what it knows about stopping those deaths, and how far most governments remain from acting on that knowledge.

progress report on the SAFER initiative," was formally launched in a webinar from Geneva at noon local time on June 26, 2026. It is the most comprehensive assessment the WHO has produced since launching the ini...