Excessive Drinking Habits On The Rise

Excessive drinking habits are up. Heavy alcohol use jumped by 20-percent in 2020 during the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic, and only increased by 2022.

That's according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The four-percent increase from 2020 to 2022 was seen across all regions of the U.S., all genders and most races.

Researchers pointed to reasons including drinking becoming more normalized because of pandemic stress