[DoodleBob]

Alcohol use disorder word salad for alcohol abuse. Clinically, it is a pattern of alcohol use that involves problems controlling your drinking, being preoccupied with alcohol or continuing to use alcohol even when it causes problems. This disorder also involves having to drink more to get the same effect or having withdrawal symptoms when you rapidly decrease or stop drinking. Alcohol use disorder includes a level of drinking that's sometimes called alcoholism.

Here is the punchline - the pandemic and lockdowns fanned the flames of alcohol abuse. They admit as much when they write

Relaxing restrictions on travel and social interactions, availability of goods, reopening of schools and offices, and the gradual economic recovery could be contributing factors in decreasing AUD diagnosis risk.

[packagingguy]

Economists warned that prolonged lockdowns would produce increased criminal activity, increased drug and alcohol abuse, suicide, depression, job displacement, homelessness.

I have been unable to locate the article I read in March or April 2020. Written by an economist. Perhaps it was “memory holed”. I distinctly remembered the article though.

It’s not like we weren’t warned.

[vivenne]

Chicken Littleitis.

[maddog55]

Pure BS as always but I’m guessing big pharma will come up with a pill for another one of their 3 letter diseases.