A record low number of Americans are drinking, according to a new Gallup poll released this week. Just 54% of Americans said they consume alcohol at all.

Gallup has been tracking Americans’ drinking behavior since 1939, and their views of the health implications of drinking since 2001. For the first time, a majority of Americans – 53% – said that moderate drinking, defined as one or two drinks per day, is bad for your health.

  • commander@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I’ll drink occasionally and eat an edible occasionally. Pretty much only socially. I don’t get the people who obsessively have to explain why what they’re using recreationally is actually healthy. Been around people like that since I was a pre-teen. About middle aged now and they’re all a bunch of burnouts including the sad they missed out in their teens/early 20s that decided to dive in late 20s because they watched all the YouTube videos on the benefits. All burned out. Not just alcohol and weed. All my acid, shrooms, ketamine, 2c-i, peyote, dmt, whatever friends - damn near all of them burned out and talk like teenagers in their 30s and 40s. Most generally don’t even they’re enlightened anymore and just want to chill with drugs

    Moderation folks. Don’t make drugs your religion or personality and you won’t have early emotional burn out in life