{"id":1609,"date":"2022-03-25T17:19:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T17:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/worldsuffering\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2022-03-25T17:19:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T17:19:58","slug":"1609","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/worldsuffering\/2022\/03\/25\/1609\/","title":{"rendered":"25% Increase in Alcohol-Related Deaths in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1612\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1612\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1612\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/worldsuffering\/files\/2022\/03\/alcohol-alcoholism-ale-background-bar-beer-1458953-pxhere.com_-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/worldsuffering\/files\/2022\/03\/alcohol-alcoholism-ale-background-bar-beer-1458953-pxhere.com_-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/worldsuffering\/files\/2022\/03\/alcohol-alcoholism-ale-background-bar-beer-1458953-pxhere.com_-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/worldsuffering\/files\/2022\/03\/alcohol-alcoholism-ale-background-bar-beer-1458953-pxhere.com_-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/worldsuffering\/files\/2022\/03\/alcohol-alcoholism-ale-background-bar-beer-1458953-pxhere.com_-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/worldsuffering\/files\/2022\/03\/alcohol-alcoholism-ale-background-bar-beer-1458953-pxhere.com_-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/worldsuffering\/files\/2022\/03\/alcohol-alcoholism-ale-background-bar-beer-1458953-pxhere.com_-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four green glass bottles dripping with condensation. Image used under <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/share-your-work\/public-domain\/cc0\/\">CC0<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/22\/health\/alcohol-deaths-covid.html?smid=tw-share\"><em>The New York Times<\/em> covered new research<\/a> from National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism that shows there was a 25% increase in alcohol-related deaths between 2019 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The new research, published in the\u00a0<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2790491\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Journal of the American Medical Association<\/a> last Friday used death certificates to identify all deaths for which alcohol was a primary or contributing cause.<\/p>\n<p>They quote <a href=\"https:\/\/usasciencefestival.org\/people\/aaron-white-ph-d\/\">Aaron White<\/a>, the lead researcher, who says that the sharp increase in deaths may be due to people with substance abuse disorder relapsing on account of pandemic-related stress. At the same time as stress and the risk of relapse increased, the pandemic also decreased access to rehabilitative and support services, putting peoples lives at risk.<\/p>\n<p>To put this increase in perspective: the report shows that more people under sixty-five died from alcohol use in 2020 than from covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>The increase in alcohol-related deaths in 2020 is part of a longer trend of alcohol use increasing among adults over the past fifteen years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week The New York Times covered new research from National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism that shows there was a 25% increase in alcohol-related deaths between 2019 and 2020. The new research, published in the\u00a0The Journal of the American Medical Association last Friday used death certificates to identify all deaths for which alcohol [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2106,"featured_media":1612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[212,140054,140055,140056,27501,27102],"class_list":["post-1609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-alcohol","tag-alcohol-related-deaths","tag-substance-abuse-disoder","tag-substance-se","tag-suffering","tag-well-being"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/worldsuffering\/files\/2022\/03\/alcohol-alcoholism-ale-background-bar-beer-1458953-pxhere.com_-1-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/worldsuffering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/worldsuffering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/worldsuffering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/worldsuffering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/worldsuffering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/worldsuffering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1614,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/worldsuffering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions\/1614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/worldsuffering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/worldsuffering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/worldsuffering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/worldsuffering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}