{"id":1232,"date":"2020-09-29T09:27:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T16:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2020-09-30T09:27:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T16:27:59","slug":"changes-in-adult-alcohol-use-and-consequences-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/29\/changes-in-adult-alcohol-use-and-consequences-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes in Adult Alcohol Use and Consequences During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with an increase in alcohol consumption among US adults. Survey data from the RAND Corporation American Life Panel show that on average, 3 out of 4 adults consumed alcohol 1 additional day per month in 2020 than they did in 2019. For women, there was also a 41% increase from baseline in days of heavy drinking, equating to an increase of 1 day for 1 in 5 women. There was also an average increase in the Short Inventory of Problems scale for women, which indicates increased alcohol-related problems independent of consumption level for nearly 1 in 10 women.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pollard et al. (Sept 29, 2020). Changes in Adult Alcohol Use and Consequences During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US. JAMA Network Open. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.22942\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.22942<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with an increase in alcohol consumption among US adults. Survey data from the RAND Corporation American Life Panel show that on average, 3 out of 4 adults consumed alcohol 1 additional day per month in 2020 than they did in 2019. For women, there was also a 41% increase from&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/29\/changes-in-adult-alcohol-use-and-consequences-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-the-us\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[44],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-mental-health-personal-impact","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1233,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}