Most beer tastes like garbage to me so it’s easy to not buy it.

By the time I quit alcohol, I was developing peripheral neuropathy and fatty liver from all the drinking. I ended up in urgent care after a particularly bad night. The intake staff treated me like shit because they didn't understand why someone would drink like that; I was taking up space that someone with an "actual" problem could've used. I was laid up in the hospital for three days having auditory hallucinations while I detoxed.

I was lucky enough to have enough time and space to introspect about how my life had gotten so fucked up. Turned out I was coping with massive amounts of unrealized trauma. I came out as queer, I transitioned, and I ditched my unhealthy "friends" and "family".

5+ years sober, my nerves are better and my liver is back to normal. I shed 40 pounds of alcohol weight. I finally have a healthy relationship with myself.

To anyone who's struggling... don't give up. You are capable of winning your fight.

I had to make a choice about 5 or 6 years ago, keep drinking and die, or stop drinking and live.

Trump had just been voted out.

I wish I hadn't quit.

and thats why they lobbied against weed and glp-1.

If you find it hard to reduce, check out the Sinclair method to cut down or quit over time, with a medication an hour before a drink. Understand the chemistry of our brains and how to use for good. Lots of NA options now too that can help but watch out for replacement drinks with added sugars that hurt the liver too. Look up which treatment options work best based on the data and which might work for you.

If you want to join a group, look for ones that use researched-based what helps people with addictions the most and avoid conditional belonging with forced words/thought. Look for groups and people in life that use Sagan's baloney detection kit to analyze problems and possible solutions based on verifiable data, not supernatural threats or promises of rewards later for suffering now, which high-control systems use to hijack the brain.

Who can afford alcohol?

Next, Trump will lift all restrictions on alcohol advertising.

Product placements coming to Bluey.

In my area, the alcohol at a bar club or restaurant is easily 5x the cost it was a decade ago.liquor stores are 2-3x. So cash strapped younger folks can't afford it.

Local older folks find most modern beer to have gone too far in alcohol content and added flavors that the beer drinking experience is no longer refreshing, good with food or summertime activities.

I'm betting the Gallup poll was focused on the health perception of drinking alcohol, and not the bigger picture of why consumption is lower .

I'd be interested to see a breakdown of this trend by states where marijuana is legalized vs. where it isn't.

I wonder how this currently matches the actual quantity people are drinking. Historically the "how much do you drink" and sales records indicated massive under estimation to the point this might really be people are drinking what they said they were in 2001.

That said alcohol is a mood amplifier for me.. So I avoid entirely if not in a good mood.. And really have been enjoying the na beers, not as good as a nice craft beer but when I feel like a beer while watching something at home or playing video games hits close enough without the mind altering part (and if I want to do anything later in the evening and its a weekend this is a good thing)

I certainly am not avoiding a good drink at the bar, see no real reason to think one drink day is particularly bad if that is what you are actually doing (the headlines on the recent health studies are overblown, not saying the science is wrong but nuance in science reporting is awful as usual) but if you are not enjoying it really no reason to have it just because.