America Has a Drinking Alone Problem
<p>Ilike to drink. Some nights I drink too much. Some <em>months</em> I drink too much. March of 2020 was one of those months.</p>
<p>Confronted by a new virus and unprecedented lockdowns, a lot of Americans leaned on alcohol for support, and I was one of them. Average per-person alcohol sales <a href="https://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/surveillance-covid-19/COVSALES.htm#fig1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">soared</a> during the first months of the pandemic and continued rising for much of the following year. My own drinking swelled to a couple glasses of wine most nights of the week, with a cocktail thrown in now and then; nothing crazy, but enough that I worried about it and made a conscious (and successful) effort to drink less.</p>
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