1. El repunte del consumo de alcohol durante el confinamiento.
Diversos testimonios y reportes indican un incremento significativo en la ingesta de bebidas alcohólicas como mecanismo de defensa ante el estrés y el aislamiento inicial.
- The effects of the pandemic are still with us after 5 years. Apparently it turned us into a nation of drunks!
- Bruh! the first year of the pandemic i was putting up barney gumble type numbers in my living room and running through a bottle of whiskey every week to boot.
- On this day in covid history, september 22, 2021 americans are using alcohol to cope with pandemic stress nearly 1 in 5 report heavy drinking source usa today.
2. Procesos de sobriedad y recuperación en tiempos de crisis.
Muchos individuos aprovecharon el periodo pandémico para reevaluar su relación con el alcohol, iniciando procesos de recuperación que han perdurado por media década.
- I hit my 5-year sober mark in march of this year. If you do the math, i gave up alcohol at the beginning of the pandemic. Its been something.
- I celebrated my 5-year soberversary in late mid-november. Thats right i quit cold turkey during a raging pandemic.
- I got sober during the last trump presidency. I stayed sober through a pandemic odaat ill get through this shit show, too.
3. Impacto en la mortalidad y enfermedades crónicas.
Los datos estadísticos revelan un aumento alarmante en las muertes relacionadas con el alcohol y enfermedades hepáticas que no han retornado a los niveles previos a 2020.
- Alcohol-specific deaths were reasonably stable up until 2019 and then increased by over a third between 2019 and 2022 following the pandemic.
- Excessive drinking was linked to a jump in high blood pressure deaths during the covid pandemic, cdc report says.
- The sharp increase in alcohol deaths during the pandemic was no flash in the pan. The higher rate has persisted and is getting worse each year.
4. Transformación de la vida nocturna y nuevas tendencias sociales.
Se observa un cambio generacional hacia la moderación y actividades diurnas saludables, afectando la industria de los bares y la producción de cerveza artesanal.
- Younger adults increasingly prefer alcohol-free daytime social activities centered on fitness and wellness, a trend called daylife partly driven by pandemic habits.
- The pandemic killed a lot of breweries and post pandemic, there seems to be fewer people in bars overall.
- Americans are consuming alcohol at the lowest rate since weve been tracking drinking habits. The decline correlates with new health data, generational culture, and certain social consequences of the pandemic.
5. El papel de otras sustancias y la salud mental.
El uso de cannabis y otras sustancias también experimentó cambios, a menudo vinculados a la gestión de la ansiedad y el dolor crónico derivado del COVID prolongado.
- Weed has kept me sane and away from booze during the pandemic. I have a nasty feeling that some alcohol lobbyists might be in someones ear over this shit.
- The history books are going to say that when marijuana was legalized in the us the number of potheads skyrocketed. But theyll leave out the fact that a pandemic gave 1 in 10 of us chronic pain.
- Working-age deaths attributed to alcohol, drugs and suicide were up 24 in 2023 on pre-pandemic levels, consistent with an increase in severe mental health problems.