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How America Is Drinking Itself To Death

How America Is Drinking Itself To Death

The pandemic trapped millions in a bottle

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Ben Domenech
Feb 10, 2022
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Christopher Ingraham. “It’s been a rough couple of years, what with the pandemic and the rise of American fascism and all. Many Americans have been weathering the ongoing storms with the aid of a time-tested coping mechanism: booze. This was apparent from the get-go, when researchers noticed a sustained spike in alcohol sales following the earliest loc…

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