Moderation by age and college status was also tested. RESULTS :2020 was associated with (1) downward deviation in 30-day (young and middle adults) and binge drinking (young adults) prevalence; (2) upward deviation in daily drinking prevalence (middle adults); (3) among drinkers, upward ...
Jackson KM, Merrill JE, Stevens AK, Hayes KL, White HR. Changes in alcohol use and drinking context due to the COVID-19 pandemic: a multimethod study of college student drinkers.Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2021;45(4):752–764. doi:10.1111/acer.14574. ...
We take a look at whether drinking alcohol plays a role in infection and transmission of the COVID-19 virus.
Thus, there is an emergence of drinkers at risk of establishing potentially dangerous patterns of alcohol consumption during lockdown. In the UK, which went into lockdown after a national announcement by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on March 22nd 2020, data from the Office for National Statistics...
Compared to stable drinkers (32% of sample), a higher proportion of participants who increased drinking alcohol also reported anxiety or depression (45% vs. 26%), moderate to severe emotional distress (61% vs. 37%) and viewing Covid-19 as a threat to their community (67% vs. 55%). ...
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This comes as daily marijuana users now outnumber daily drinkers for the first time ever, according to a new report from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. The change in preference is largely being driven by young people. Of people aged 18 to 24, 69% prefer marijuana to alcohol,...
The study did not examine the reasons behind the link between a decrease in drinking and increase in stress and anxiety, but Avery said one possibility is that these were social drinkers who were missing out on after-work happy hours and other occasions where they drank with friends. ...
. The Covid-19 epidemic has had impacts on use and patterns of drinking as well as related harms. The pragmatism underlying harm reduction for illicit drugs applies equally to alcohol. The field of alcohol harm reduction runs from macro- and meso-level policies to targeted programs and micro-...
TUESDAY, May 11, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Maintaining adequate social distance from strangers — a key COVID-19 preventive measure — can be tough when you're drinking alcohol, researchers say. In a new study, the researchers put more than 200 young social drinkers in different social situa...