In 2022, 69.3% of Americans reported some alcohol consumption in the previous year, a slight increase from 69% in 2020 and 66.34% in 2018. Though the researchers couldn’t answer exactly why alcohol consumption was so high among the US adults surveyed, Lee has a few hypotheses. The height of the pandemic also saw an average of about 488 deaths per day due to excessive alcohol consumption; there was an increase of more than 29% from 2016-17 to 2020-21. “We’ve shown in studies that liver transplants for alcohol have increased fivefold in the last 20 years. We’ve also shown that alcohol deaths due to liver disease are surging,” he said.

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Persons: Brian Lee, ” Lee, hasn’t, Lee, ”, Jagpreet Chhatwal, “, ” Chhatwal, Dr, Sanjay Gupta, “ We’ve, We’ve, Chhatwal Organizations: CNN, University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine, Internal, National Health, US Census Bureau, “, Institute for Technology, Massachusetts General Hospital, National Institute, Alcohol, US Centers for Disease Control, CNN Health Locations: Massachusetts