A spike in alcohol consumption among people in the US in 2020 continued to rise slightly in 2021 and 2022.
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A spike in alcohol consumption among people in the US in 2020 continued to rise slightly in 2021 and 2022.
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Alcohol use increased during the Covid-19 pandemic. A new study shows that it’s still high

A surge of stress-related drinking and alcohol-related deaths brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic in the US has not tapered off the way Dr. Brian Lee, a transplant hepatologist at Keck Medicine of the University of Southern California, had hoped.