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eikenberry
1894 days ago
Assuming this site has decent numbers, in the US around 5% of people >26 years old have an "alcohol use disorder". Presumably the majority of those are addition disorders. But that means that after 12 years 95% of them will still be fine.
https://americanaddictioncenters.org/rehab-guide/addiction-s...
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osmarks
1894 days ago
Presumably an alcohol use disorder is quite bad. Is the benefit of drinking alcohol really enough to offset the fairly significant risk there?
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goonogle
1894 days ago
So tens of millions of people?
Sounds like a public health crisis
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