As the world fights against challenges arising from the spread of Covid-19, alcohol consumption has become a common coping response to reduce stress amid the pandemic, according to the experts.
The article was published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Considering Covid-19, experts at McLean Hospital examined potential ways to moderate and reduce rising alcohol consumption in the face of the pandemic.
Because the Covid-19 pandemic is longer lasting and more extensive than previous traumatic events–with widespread social disruption and isolation, limited social support and access to medical care, and negative domestic and global economic impacts–it could have an even greater effect on population-wide alcohol use.
“We hope this article will call attention to the pandemic’s effects on alcohol use and offer mitigating approaches to this under-recognized public…