{"id":471791,"date":"2026-09-22T09:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T09:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/471791\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T09:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T09:36:13","slug":"alcohol-use-falls-nationwide-but-heavy-drinking-jumps-among-older-adults-usc-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/471791\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcohol Use Falls Nationwide, But Heavy Drinking Jumps Among Older Adults: USC Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers found that from 2022 to 2024, overall alcohol use fell by nearly 2%, while heavy drinking dropped by more than 8%. The study, published in Annals of Internal Medicine, analyzed National Health Interview Survey responses from more than 114,000 U.S. adults between 2018 and 2024, according to USC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s encouraging to see alcohol use decline for the first time since the start of the pandemic,\u201d said Dr. Brian P. Lee, a Keck Medicine hepatologist and the study\u2019s principal investigator. \u201cHowever, use remains above pre-pandemic levels and certain groups continue to have concerning trends.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Researchers found that from 2022 to 2024, overall alcohol use fell by nearly 2%, while heavy drinking dropped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-471791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}