Bad news! Living in the age of gender equality!
"Alcohol use disorder is a chronic disease that used to disproportionately affect men. But for the first time in history, women are catching up.
Today, women in the United States are drinking and engaging in harmful alcohol use at rates on par with their male counterparts. ...
But as alcohol use disorder in women is on the rise, researchers are finding that men and women are motivated to drink for different reasons—and women face greater health risks. ...
Last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified a disturbing trend—between 2016 and 2021, rates of alcohol-related deaths increased by 35% in women (and 27% in men). Some researchers hypothesize that changes in social norms may be one of the drivers of increased drinking in women. ...
Research shows that the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the rise in drinking. One 2020 study found that the number of days in which women reported heavy alcohol use—at least four drinks within a couple of hours—rose by 41%. ...
The rise in alcohol use is especially concerning because women face greater drinking-related health risks at lower amounts of alcohol than men. “We refer to this as the risk-severity paradox,” says McKee.
Studies have found that women who drink are at a disproportionately greater risk for brain damage, cognitive deficits, various cancers such as breast cancer, cardiovascular issues, liver injury, and immune system dysfunction. Drinking is also associated with greater risk of mental health issues and suicide, physical and sexual assault, and pregnancy- and perinatal-related complications. ...
Women experience greater health risks from drinking, in part, because they metabolize alcohol differently than men. ..."
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