Women Now Drink As Much As Men And Suffer Health Effects More Quickly

By the time Victoria Cooper enrolled in an alcohol treatment program in 2018, she was "drinking for survival," not pleasure, she says — multiple vodka shots in the morning, at lunchtime and beyond. In the treatment program, she saw other women in their 20s struggling with alcohol and other drugs. "It was the first time in a very long time that I had not felt alone," she says.

Women aren’t just upping their drinking, researchers say. Increasingly they are “drinking to cope,” instead of for pleasure — which accelerates the risk of alcohol use disorder and its health damage.

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Aneri Pattani