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纽约时报:美国的酗酒问题有多严重?(1)

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Even before the pandemic began, some Americans were drinking significantly more alcohol than they had in decades past — with damaging consequences. In 2020, researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (N.I.A.A.A.) found that from 1999 through 2017, per capita consumption increased by 8 percent and the number of alcohol-related deaths doubled, many caused by liver disease. The trends are particularly concerning for women: Whereas the number of men who reported any drinking stayed mostly the same, the proportion of women who did so increased 10 percent, and the number of women who reported binge drinking, or consuming roughly four or more drinks in about two hours, increased by 23 percent. (For men, binge drinking is about five or more drinks in that period.) Current dietary guidelines consider moderate drinking to be at most one drink a day for women and two for men.

在新冠疫情爆发之前,有些美国人的饮酒量就明显超过了过去几十年的水平,而这引发了严重后果。2020年,美国国家防止酒精滥用与酒精中毒研究所(简称NIAAA)的研究人员发现,从1999年到2017年,美国人均饮酒量增长了8%,与酒精有关的死亡人数翻了一番,其中大多由肝病引起。这一趋势对女性来说尤其令人担忧:尽管报告饮酒的男性人数基本保持不变,但报告饮酒的女性比例增加了10%,报告酗酒或在大约两小时内喝了约四杯或更多酒的女性人数增加了23%。(男性在约两小时内狂饮约五杯或更多的酒。)最新版饮食指南认为,适度饮酒指女性每天最多喝一杯,男性最多喝两杯。
So researchers were understandably apprehensive when, early in the pandemic, alcohol sales spiked. They were especially concerned about women, because similar quantities of alcohol affect them more adversely than men, making them more likely to suffer injuries from accidents and to develop chronic illnesses like liver and heart disease and cancer. But it was unclear whether increased sales would translate into increased consumption. Perhaps Americans were hoarding alcohol as they were toilet paper.
因此,酒精销量在疫情初期激增时,研究人员的担忧是可以理解的。他们尤为关注女性,因为与男性相比,同样数量的酒精对她们的影响更大,会使她们更容易因意外事故而受伤,患上肝病、心脏病和癌症等慢性疾病。但目前尚不清楚销售增长是否会转化为消费增长。也许美国人囤积酒精就像他们囤积卫生纸一样。

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A growing body of research, however, has begun to confirm that Americans, and women in particular, are indeed drinking more in response to the pandemic. In December, researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, published the results of a survey they conducted last May in The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. They found that of the more than 800 respondents — those who replied to the online questionnaire were mostly white women — 60 percent were drinking more compared with before Covid-19 (13 percent were drinking less). More than 45 percent of participants said their reasons for drinking included increased stress. And those who reported feeling "very much" or "extreme" stress from the pandemic reported drinking more on more days than those who were less affected. Another survey conducted this February by the American Psychological Association found that nearly one in four adults reported drinking more to manage pandemic stress. Though stress has long been a common reason people turn to alcohol, the extent to which it appeared to cause increased consumption during the past year was startling, says George Koob, director of the N.I.A.A.A. "It shouldn't have been a surprise, but it did surprise us, this drinking to cope."

然而,越来越多的研究已开始证实,美国人,尤其是女性,确实在为应对疫情而增加饮酒量。去年12月,约翰霍普金斯大学彭博公共卫生学院和巴尔的摩郡马里兰大学的研究人员在国际环境研究与公共健康期刊》上发表了他们去年5月所进行调查的结果。他们发现,在800多名受访者中,填写在线问卷的大多是白人女性,与新冠肺炎爆发之前相比,其中60%的人饮酒量增加(13%的人饮酒量减少)。超过45%的受访者称他们喝酒的原因包括压力增加。相比受疫情影响较小的人,因疫情而感到“非常大”或“极大”压力者的饮酒时间和饮酒量都要更多。美国心理协会今年2月进行的另一项调查发现,近四分之一的成年人报告称,为了应对疫情带来的压力,他们会增加饮酒量。美国国家防止酒精滥用与酒精中毒研究所所长乔治·科布表示,尽管压力长期以来一直是人们开始酗酒的常见原因,但过去一年,压力导致饮酒量增加的程度依然令人震惊。“用酒精应对压力的情况本不应该令人吃惊,但又确实让我们感到惊讶。”

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