We really did buy more alcohol during the early pandemic, study finds
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Americans bought substantially more hard liquor and wine, but less beer, during the early days of the pandemic, while some states' residents binged on both, according to sales data.
"Understanding how alcohol purchase behavior is changed by events such as Covid is important because heavy alcohol use is known to be associated with numerous social problems, especially within the home," said study coauthor Brian Quigley, a research assistant professor of medicine in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo in New York.
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