The Bill Comes Due
ALD (alcohol-related liver disease) in the United States is projected to cost $355 billion in direct healthcare-related costs and $525 billion in lost labor and economic consumption.
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How Alcohol Research Gets It Wrong
…there could have been dozens if not hundreds of articles and TV features actively promoting incorrect information. Conditioning the audience against newer and more accurate findings, if they contradicted what had become popular belief.
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Borg Invasion
Colleges, in my experience, have a weirdly ambivalent attitude towards this kind of behavior from their students.
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That Alcohol Report from Canada
…of course alcohol isn’t healthy. It’s a damn toxin, people.
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A Spike in Drinking
Those restrictions existed to inhibit people’s tendencies to abuse alcohol. In their absence, problems related to excessive drinking increased, substantially.
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Those Alcohol Death Statistics…
Of course, if we also counted the other ways that drinking can kill — via accidents (on the road, in the water, etc), suicides, falls, etc. — the 2020 total suddenly increases to 140,000 fatalities.
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MDs Confronting SUDs
I imagine it takes a special kind of practitioner to push aside the barriers in the system to get to the SUD that lies underneath, even when he or she knows it’s there.
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Warning Labels on Alcohol — Are They Worth It?
These physicians are fully aware of the opposition that such proposals draw. Not only from within the alcohol industry itself, but also from drinkers who feel strongly that how much and how often they choose to drink is nobody’s darn business but their own.
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Legal Drug Blues
More impressive results have come from simply increasing taxes on alcoholic beverages. States that have done so have been rewarded, mostly through reductions in the consequences of excessive drinking.
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The Old Normal
It’s still what we tend to think of as ‘normal’. Held up as what we hope to return to, someday when the pandemic is over and sanity has returned.
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It Sure Sounds Like Hazing
“It helps recruit students if the college has a reputation as someplace you can party,” he said. “But nobody wants to be known as the place where kids are likely to get in trouble. That scares away the parents.”
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Not Much Drinking Required
“These findings contrast with scientific and governmental guidelines on safe drinking limits.”
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