Pandemic-prompted drinking persists, according to a new study that shows a continued increase in alcohol use.
  • kibiz0rEnglish
    22·
    9 days ago

    new research suggests drinking didn’t stop as things returned to normal.

    Hah! Normal?

  • gdog05@lemmy.world
    16·
    9 days ago

    I know I definitely did. I really had to cut back a lot. It was feeling problematic. But as I started getting back out into society (I happily isolated from everyone) and wanting to socialize over beers or cocktails, so many of my friends have quit altogether. I assume many due to their drinking during quarantine.

    • Flocklesscrow@lemm.eeEnglish
      81·
      9 days ago

      Yup. Quit during pandemic. Will be 3 years sans alcohol at the end of this month. Is my health better? Yes. Does it make socializing harder? Absolutely.

  • Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world
    6·
    8 days ago

    I certainly didn’t stop. I went from Trump to COVID to living alone in a new state and depression and back to Trump. Now I live in Hitler’s early days and next can look forward to world war III, Trump’s genocide, and America’s collapse. I won’t live to see it get good again, if it ever does.

    So what I’m saying is, you can pry this alcohol out of my cold dead hands.