Drinking more? That's because you're an old fart like me...

 

The U.S. is in the midst of a 'temperance boom' of sorts. Drinking rates have been steadily declining nationwide, with an August Gallup poll showing that only 54% of Americans ever consume alcohol—sharply down from 67% as recently as 2010. Now, a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine takes those findings a step further, reporting that younger adults in the Millennial and Gen Z cohorts - people born from 1981 to 2012 - are driving that trend. Meanwhile, older Americans, aged 50-74, are actually consuming more alcohol than they used to, with rates increasing by more than one third since 2018.
Americans saw a 2% drop in overall drinking and 8% in heavy drinking in just the 2022 to 2024 window. Total drinking dropped most dramatically among Gen Z, with rates falling nearly 6% from 2022 to 2024, compared with about 2% for Millennials. Heavy drinking fell by roughly a fifth in both generations.
Older Americans, however, went in the opposite direction, with those in the 50 to 74 age group seeing an increase of 4% in overall drinking, and 36% spike in heavy drinking from 2018 to 2024.

There's a good reason we - well, me anyway - are drinking more. 

We see the country going to shit, our dollars going down the toilet, mothers killing their own babies, and lunatic lefties everywhere we look, and there's little if anything we can do about it, so fuck it - why not, right?

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