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 ...

Researchers studied the trends in alcohol use after the COVID-19 pandemic, comparing data from 2018, 2020 and 2022. The national study, published in Annals of Internal Medicine on Tuesday ...

An IIHS study about the rise in impaired-driving deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic finds mental health issues as well as ...

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 ...

Fewer teenagers are consuming marijuana and alcohol than they were in the early 90s, but among those who reported prior-year ...

A new national study has revealed the serious health consequences of alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 lockdowns, with ...

Pandemic drinking habits linger. ... Alcohol-related deaths among middle-aged Americans rose nearly 30% in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new CDC study found.

Pandemic drinking habits linger. ... Alcohol-related deaths among middle-aged Americans rose nearly 30% in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new CDC study found.

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 ...