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Health system documents steep increase in alcohol withdrawal during pandemic
Author(s) -
Enos Gary
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.32992
Subject(s) - pandemic , leverage (statistics) , covid-19 , substance use , psychology , alcohol , alcohol use disorder , business , environmental health , psychiatry , medicine , computer science , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , chemistry , biochemistry , disease , pathology , machine learning , outbreak
Early on in the COVID‐19 pandemic, reports of soaring alcohol sales generated concern over what kinds of impacts might surface later. A nonprofit health system has now been able to leverage data on its hospitalized patients to demonstrate that for many, drinking to cope with stress likely led to a full‐blown substance use disorder.