The death rate from alcohol use rose sharply in the United States in the first year of the pandemic. From 2019 to 2020, the rate of alcohol-induced deaths climbed 26 percent, from 10.4 per 100,000 ...

Excessive drinking persisted in the years after Covid arrived, according to new data. By Roni Caryn Rabin Americans started drinking more as the Covid-19 pandemic got underway. They were stressed, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Alcohol-related deaths surged in Colorado in 2020, pointing to the need for more people to get treatment and, a researcher stressed, better options for those ...

Excessive drinking is increasingly killing middle-aged adults — a trend that had been brewing for nearly two decades before it ramped up at an alarming pace when the coronavirus pandemic began.