Solo drinking surge among young adults, especially women: A red flag for public health

Doing my part as a male to restore the gender gap

Reading this while doing my part 🍻
- But if we virtually toast, does it still count as solo drinking? 🍻
I’m doing my part!

“Roughly 4 in 10 young adults who drink alcohol report drinking alone at least once in the past year,” said lead author Kasey Creswell, associate professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon.

Only 4 in 10? 6 in 10 young adults who drink alcohol never have a beer or glass of wine on a cozy evening in? I would have expected it to be the other way around.

Yeah, sometimes I just want to savor some bourbon with tv. When I'm socializing I feel like a douche for swishing my sip and sniffing my glass. Which to be fair is pretty douchey but it brings out the subtleties

Socializing of all kinds is way down, a trend that started in the pandemic and has continued. Solo drinking isn't great, obviously, but it's understandable in our current world.

Bars are too expensive where I am to be a traditional social alcoholic

Isn't drinking way down in young people overall? I think the comparisons wouldn't be one to one then.

“There have been increases in solitary drinking among young women, in particular, over the past 25 years. Solitary drinking, or sometimes drinking when they are alone, was reported by about 40% of young adults who drank in the past year.”

40% of young adults who drank in the past year
Yeah—it looks like it’s a trend among drinkers, so it says nothing about the overall drinking rate.
- The number doesn't say that much. Obviously it's among drinkers, but I think the more interesting percentage would be people who only drink alone.
- That's what I mean, wouldn't it being a different subset of users? Maybe these are the hardcore drinkers that already existed, but were overshadowed by the huge numbers of drinkers.
Maybe drinking is down overall, but solo drinking is up? (So social drinking is down)

I am drinking with friends. They aren't in my house but I know they are drinking too /s

When actual connection and entertainment is impossible to reach for a lot of people it makes sense these numbers would go up.

Girl band version of this song incoming.

Whenever it comes to alcohol on here, the comment quality falls to TikTok levels. Only missing 🤣🤣🤣

So true 🤣🤣🤣