Pandemic-era increase in alcohol use persists
news.keckmedicine.org
LOS ANGELES — Alcohol use increased during the COVID-19 pandemic and remained elevated even after the pandemic ended, according to a large nationally representative Keck Medicine of USC study published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine.  From pre-pandemic (2018) to the height of the pandemic (2020), heavy alcohol use among Americans ros...
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Original Title: A study finds that during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic (in 2020), heavy drinking among adult Americans increased by over 20%, overall alcohol use by 4%, and these increases persisted for the next two years