Emergency medicine expert cites anecdotal evidence as new study finds people drinking more frequently during pandemic
The director of emergency medicine research at one of Australia’s busiest hospitals says she has seen “extreme examples of people with severe alcohol dependency and intoxication” throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, and that while less people are being harmed due to alcohol-related street and bar injuries and accidents, more harm is occurring in homes.
Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton, who works at Monash Health, said that in the past couple of months she had seen a woman admitted to emergency in her 30s who held down a job which had transitioned to working from home due to the pandemic, allowing her to drink half a bottle of gin a day.
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