The study defines heavy drinking as four or more drinks a day for women at any one setting or eight of more in a week. For men, it's five or more drinks in a day or 15 or more in a week.

Pandemic-era drinking increases persist, study shows 01:51. The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with increases in stress-related drinking and alcohol-related deaths, and new research suggests ...

Heavy-drinking adults under 30 are consuming less alcohol compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study suggests, adding to evidence that found Gen Z’s drinking habits have impacted ...

A surge of stress-related drinking and alcohol-related deaths brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic in the US has not tapered off the way Dr. Brian Lee, a transplant hepatologist at Keck Medicine of ...

Study participants provided information on four measures of alcohol consumption during the pandemic: drinking frequency, number of drinks per occasion, change in alcohol consumption since the COVID-19 ...

The study, published in the Journal of American College Health, reveals that drinking to cope put young adults with anxiety sensitivity at further risk of problematic drinking and the negative ...

Dinan, 42, has been working to get his drinking under control for the past seven years. He's gotten back on track now, but the stress of the pandemic has made it harder than ever before.

About 20% of Americans in the last 30 days have had an episode of heavy drinking. Now, a new study is calling into question the term "functional alcoholic" and taking a closer look at alcohol's ...

The number of women ages 40 to 64 seen at a hospital because of alcohol misuse nearly doubled during the pandemic, according to a new study. During 10 months between April 2020 and September 2021 ...

The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with increases in stress-related drinking and alcohol-related deaths, and new research suggests drinking didn’t stop as things returned to normal.

The study included almost 25,000 respondents from 2018, about 31,000 from 2020 and almost 27,000 from 2022. The increase in drinking was seen among both men and women and across all race and ...

The study, published in March in the journal Alcohol and Alcoholism, looked at alcohol consumption among more than 3,600 U.S. residents, and examined associations between drinking patterns and anxiety ...