Alcohol abuse spiked during the pandemic. Treatment hasn’t kept up.

Dec 30 2022 by POLITICO - TOP Stories

 

As states locked down in 2020, many of them moved to help restaurants and small businesses by making it easier to sell booze.

The public policy shift in the states coincided with an alarming increase in alcohol consumption during the pandemic and a 26 percent increase in alcohol-induced deaths from 2019 to 2020. Public health experts warn that the relaxed rules are eroding progress combating substance abuse, especially since resources for treatment for alcoholism have failed to keep...

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