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I’m curious what you’ve been seeing that’s given you the view that drug and alcohol use has increased a lot post-pandemic. I assume you mean in the US context?

I’m curious what you’ve been seeing that’s given you the view that drug and alcohol use has increased a lot post-pandemic. I assume you mean in the US context? I truly hope the answer isn’t 24 hour electricity, given how cheap it is to produce. That would represent a major backslide in human capability. I’m not fully against other drawdown strategies, but surely we can leave the lights on. And yes, we are simultaneously so destructive and so unhappy. What a terrible waste.

it_does_follow 5y ago
> that’s given you the view that drug and alcohol use has increased a lot post-pandemic. It's fairly well studied in the medical literature [0, 1] and reported on pretty regularly in popular media as well [2] 0. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7763183/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7763183/ 1. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2770975 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle... 2. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/09/22/covid-19-pandemic-heavy-drinking-survey-alkermes/5798036001/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/09/22/covid-...
- futureshock 5y ago
  Interesting. I wonder how this will have changed after vaccines became widely available. If it was a temporary increase vs long term. Personally, I bought a nice 1.5 l bottle of scotch a week before lockdowns began, but never bought any hard liquor since I got my vaccine.