Aims: The aim of this project was to investigate changes in alcohol consumption during the first months of the pandemic in Europe as well as its associations with income and experiences of distress related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Design: Cross-sectional online survey conducted between April 24...
A new study finds that heavy drinking among American adults increased more than 20% during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic and continued for the following two years. AUSCstudy shows a significant rise in alcohol consumption during theCOVID-19pandemic that persisted into 2022. This increase ...
Even before the pandemic, U.S. alcohol consumption was trending up, and Americans were drinking more than when Prohibition was enacted. But deaths may have increased since the COVID-19 pandemic began for several reasons, including people with alcohol-related illnesses may have had more trouble ge...
Similar percentages of Canadians increased and decreased their alcohol consumption during the first two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, according to new research. In an examination of data for almost 30,000 participants in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA), 13% reported inc...
Alcohol consumption during the coronavirus pandemic declined among men, while it remained steady among women, according to a new RAND Corporation study. Researchers found thatalcohol-related problemsincreased during thepandemic, by 49% for women and 69% for men, but the reasons for the problems rem...
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Alcohol consumption was also self-reported, which could have introduced bias, and the study could not include data on consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic due to pandemic-related delays with routine data collection, which could also have affected these estimates....
alcohol consumption was trending up, and Americans were drinking more than when Prohibition was enacted. But deaths may have increased since the COVID-19 pandemic began for several reasons, including people with alcohol-related illnesses may have had more trouble getting medical care, Esser said. ...
Knowledge on maladaptive alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic evidently is still emergent at the moment of writing. However, more is known about prevention of alcohol abuse and about the effectiveness of health campaigns generally. Two prominent theoretical frameworks that have been used to...
exact process of contagion of alcohol use is not well understood. However, in recent studies, the significance of network structure in contagion processes has increasingly been acknowledged. This has become particularly apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic, where there is a growing demand for ...